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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 1101

NameError referencing class within a class

I have the following code:

class MyClass
    def method
        foo = MyClass.all
    end
end

which results in this error:

NameError (uninitialized constant MyClass::MyClass)

It works fine if I change it to self.all, but the existing code works fine when I deploy to Heroku. It's only broken on my local system.

This is with a Rails 3.1.1 app and Ruby 1.9.2

Any ideas what's up?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (1)

axsuul
axsuul

Reputation: 7480

You shouldn't have to do that. Assuming all is a class method and is not an instance method, do

class MyClass
    def method
        foo = self.class.all
    end
end

However, I think what's causing your problem is that in production, classes are cached. In development, they get reloaded on every request.

Upvotes: 1

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