From: sehlat@...
Date: 2008-12-30T08:04:40+09:00
Subject: Newbie Problem

I'm trying to teach myself Ruby(and then rails) using Pragmatic's
"Programming Ruby" for the language part.  I get the following error
under NetBeans:

C:/Program Files/NetBeans
6.5/ruby2/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/builtin/core_ext/symbol.rb:1:in
`const_missing': uninitialized constant Song (NameError)
        from C:\Projects\RubyLearning\RubyApplication1\lib\main.rb:4

when I try to run a two-file project built from the first example in
Chapter 3:

song.rb:
# Sample code from Programing Ruby, page 23
class Song
  def initialize(name, artist, duration)
    @name     = name
    @artist   = artist
    @duration = duration
  end
end

main.rb:
a_song = Song.new("Pie Jesu", "Sarah Brightman", "234")
song.inspect

Any suggestions or help much appreciated. Also suggestions for some
newbie-tolerant discussion forum.

Thanks in advance.