Hello sobering Monday.

Eager to jump back into the fray of a suite of specs I left half baked Friday, I spent a little time first trying to figure out why I was getting a particular error when attempting to run the spec suite.

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/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:249:
  in `load_missing_constant':
  Expected /sekrat/awesomeproject/app/models/awesome.rb to define Awesome (LoadError)

Nice, eh? I’ve seen it before but I can never remember what causes it. Actually, I there are probably a number of ways you might run into this error message, such as the load order for plugins being incorrect. The way I encountered it today was by injecting a typo into an AR method, set_inheritance_column lacking the final ‘n’ in this case. So if you are shedding some tears over this, double check the spelling on your AR methods (has_many, belongs_to, etc..)