From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-03-15T04:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: new to ruby:  uninitialized constant

Paul Varoutsos wrote:
> I have a program the simulates the knights tour problem.  I made 2
> classes, 1 called 'Location' which simulates a location on a chess board
> and one called 'KnightsTour' which actually performs the knights tour.
> Then I have a main.rb file which just creats a knights tour object
> (KnightsTour.new) and calls a method on that object.  But whenever i try
> to run it, I get the following error:
>
> C:\NetBeansWorkspace\KnightsTour\lib\main.rb:3:in `const_missing':
> uninitialized constant KnightsTour (NameError)
>         from C:\NetBeansWorkspace\KnightsTour\lib\main.rb:8
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>   

Do you "require" the files containing the other two classes? Ruby will 
not search for them automatically the way, for example, Java does.

-Justin