From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T01:57:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Uninitialized constant: String::StringIO

On 14.08.2008 18:43, Patrick Li wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a hard time spotting my bug in this code.
> When it runs it gives me:
> uninitialized constant String::StringIO (NameError)
> 
> Am I missing something? StringIO is a global constant. Why can't ruby
> find it?
> 
> class String
>   def self.fromURL(string)
>     string = string.string if string.is_a?(StringIO)
>     CGI.unescape(string)
>   end
> end

$ ruby -e 'p StringIO'
-e:1: uninitialized constant StringIO (NameError)

robert@fussel ~
$ ruby -r stringio -e 'p StringIO'
StringIO

robert@fussel ~
$

Kind regards

	robert