NameError: uninitialized constant Inflector

[dschruth]

I follwed the example here:
http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/12/rails_inflector_in_ruby_scripts/

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_support/inflector'
puts Inflector.singularize('inflections')

I loaded it into irb and wrote a killer script both of which worked
perfectly for weeks.

Now when I try and run the script or run these simple example lines of
code it doesn't work anymore. And I can't for the life of me figure
out what I changed to break it! The last line gives me this error:

irb(main):003:0> puts Inflector.singularize('inflections')
NameError: uninitialized constant Inflector
from (irb):3

Does anybody know what might cause this? Is it a new plugin (like
action-mailer) that I installed? Is it a bad environmental
variable?

Thanks,

Dave

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting dschruth <dsch...@gmail.com>:
>
> I follwed the example here:
> http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/12/rails_inflector_in_ruby_scripts/
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'active_support/inflector'
> puts Inflector.singularize('inflections')
>
> I loaded it into irb and wrote a killer script both of which worked
> perfectly for weeks.
>
> Now when I try and run the script or run these simple example lines of
> code it doesn't work anymore. And I can't for the life of me figure
> out what I changed to break it! The last line gives me this error:
>
> irb(main):003:0> puts Inflector.singularize('inflections')
> NameError: uninitialized constant Inflector
> from (irb):3
>

Probably you updated Rails to 2.1.1. The above usage is now deprecated and
gives a warning to that effect in Rails. Don't know why no warning in
straight Ruby. Anyway, try

puts ActiveSupport::Inflector.singularize('inflections')

HTH,
Jeffrey

[dschruth]

thanks that worked!

On Sep 20, 7:22 am, "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <r...@abluz.dyndns.org> wrote: