From: Gray Bowman <gray.bowman@...>
Date: 2007-06-30T07:16:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Active Record not found

Jan Friedrich wrote:
> activerecord != active_record  ;)
> 
> To require gems you need also to require rubygems:
> 
>   require 'rubygems'
>   require 'active_record'


So I guess I'm really confused then.  This is my final code:

require 'net/http'
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => 'mysql',
  :host => 'localhost',
  :username => 'root',
  :password => '',
  :database => 'app_development')

class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
end

This works in IRB, and on the command line.  I'm happy now, but still 
wondering...

I didn't have to "require 'rubygems'" for this to work, why?  Isn't 
ActiveRecord a gem?  And if so, shouldn't I have to use "gem 
'active_record'" instead?

Also, if there wasn't an error on the _old_ line "require 
'activerecord'" then ruby found something by that name ... what was it?

Finally, and this is where you can really help me:  Where can I find 
this info in the documentation.  I've looked in the core reference, the 
standard lib reference, and read the whole ActiveRecord section and 
found nothing telling me how the _right_ way to include this was, what I 
found was different people doing it different ways, none of which worked 
for me.

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