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AkyRhO
AkyRhO

Reputation: 187

Duplicate Classnames after installing iCalendar gem

I just tried to deal with iCalendar gem, but it seems iCalendar has a class named Event, and my app also have a class named Event

I guess there is a way to scope one or another class name, but i just don't know how.

Here's an example of what i'd like to do :

Event.new => ActiveRecord Model

Icalendar::Event.new => Icalendar Event class

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 377

Answers (2)

Toms Mikoss
Toms Mikoss

Reputation: 9457

Force ruby to look for top-level class definitions when accessing your model, via ::Event.new. Including :: before class name signifies that class is not in any module, as opposed to Icalendar::Event that is in Icalendar module.

Or, if iCalendar does not provide the namespace, you can do it for your class, defining it as 

module MyStuff
  class Event
  end
end

and using MyStuff::Event for your model, and ::Event for iCal one.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Kohl
Michael Kohl

Reputation: 66857

Hoe about wrapping up the iCalendar gem in a module and then instantiating from e.g. Icalendar::CalEvent or something?

require 'icalendar'

module Icalendar
  CalEvent = Event
end

BTW: you could just use the name Event, but there will be a warning about reassigning to a constant.

Upvotes: 1

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