From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2009-11-12T23:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Active_Ldap Base Config Question

Hi,

In <f17e4a070c8efbdc879559a9eb7ea0ef@ruby-forum.com>
  "Active_Ldap Base Config Question" on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:39:28 +0900,
  jackster the jackle <johnsheahan@att.net> wrote:

> I haven't done much with polling AD in the past but I am now trying to
> write a basic script using active_ldap that pulls a list of users from
> AD. The following code I have here doesn't work but the thing that
> bothers me the most is that when I use a sniffer on the AD server, I
> don't see any attempt by the script to communicate with the server.
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'active_ldap'
> 
> ActiveLdap::Base.setup_connection(
>    :host => "10.1.1.1",
>    :user => "admin",
>    :password => "password",
>    :base => "dc=voice,dc=company,dc=com"
> )
> all_users = Group.find(:all, '*')
> puts all_users
> 
> 
> The actual error I get is:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:443:in
> `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Group (NameError)
> 
> Any ideas as to why this basic config isn't working?

You need to define your Group class:
  class Group < ActiveLdap::Base
    ldap_mapping :dn_attribute => "cn",
                 :classes => ['posixGroup']
    # Inspired by ActiveRecord, this tells ActiveLDAP that the
    # LDAP entry has a attribute which contains one or more of
    # some class |:class_name| where the attributes name is
    # |:local_key|. This means that it will call
    # :class_name.new(value_of(:local_key)) to create the objects.
    has_many :members, :class_name => "User", :wrap => "memberUid"
    has_many :primary_members, :class_name => 'User',
             :foreign_key => 'gidNumber',
             :primary_key => 'gidNumber'
  end # Group

  # from http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activeldap/source/browse/trunk/examples/objects/group.rb

I confused the lines:

> all_users = Group.find(:all, '*')
> puts all_users

Did you want to write like the following?
  all_groups = Group.all
  puts all_groups


Thanks,
--
kou