From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@...>
Date: 2009-01-31T03:22:54+09:00
Subject: Re: uninitialized constant error

2009/1/30 Zhao Yi <youhaodeyi@gmail.com>:
> I have three ruby classes, see below:
>
> 1. base_cls.rb
>
> File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/cls_factory'
> class BaseCls
>
>  def self.say
>    ClsFactory.say
>  end
> end
> BaseCls.say
>
> 2. sub_cls.rb
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/base_cls'
>
> class SubCls  < BaseCls
> end
>
> 3. cls_factory.rb
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/sub_cls'
>
> class ClsFactory
>  def self.get_cls
>    SubCls.new
>  end
> end
>
> When I run base_cls.rb, I got this error:
>
> base_cls.rb:5:in `say': uninitialized constant BaseCls::ClsFactory
> (NameError)
>
> I don't understand why this error happens? Can anyone help me on this?

Maybe you meant to prefix the first line in base_cls.rb with "require"?

Stefan