From: Michael Hollins <mick@...>
Date: 2007-06-30T11:30:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Active Record not found

Gray Bowman wrote:
> 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?

Do you happen to have the RUBYOPT environment variable set as follows?

     RUBYOPT=-rubygems