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Mark Winkler

CSV library error using WEBrick

Reported by Mark Winkler | June 14th, 2010 @ 07:03 PM | in 3.x

Rails 3.0 beta4
Ruby 1.9.2preview3

uninitialized constant Invoice::CSV thrown when invoking CSV.generate in model using WEBrick.

The error does not occur when run through console.

require 'csv'

class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
  csv_content =  CSV.generate do |csv|
  
  end
end

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Rohit Arondekar

    Rohit Arondekar June 15th, 2010 @ 03:56 AM

    • Milestone set to 3.x
    • Tag set to missing requires, rails 3, csv
    • Assigned user set to “Pratik”

    Confirmed on Rails master and Ruby 1.9.2-head.

    This is a very strange issue. I used CSV inside a class method on Post model. If I open the rails console, and try Post.foo, it works.

    However if I do reload! — it stops working.

    The model:

    require 'csv'
    
    class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
      def self.foo
        csv_content =  CSV.generate { |csv| }
      end
    end
    

    The console output:

    Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.0.beta4)
    ruby-1.9.2-head > Post.foo
     => "" 
    ruby-1.9.2-head > reload!
    Reloading...
     => true 
    ruby-1.9.2-head > Post.foo
    NameError: uninitialized constant Post::CSV
      from /home/rohit/bugmash/trythreadsafe/app/models/post.rb:5:in `foo'
      from (irb):3
      from /home/rohit/remote-repos/rails_patches/working4/railties/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
      from /home/rohit/remote-repos/rails_patches/working4/railties/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
      from /home/rohit/remote-repos/rails_patches/working4/railties/lib/rails/commands.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
      from script/rails:6:in `require'
      from script/rails:6:in `<main>'
    

    Curiously enough, I tried the same thing with YAML, Digest and Zlib and things worked fine. I also tried on a Rails 2.x app on 1.8.7 and things worked.

    Can somebody please try on Rails 2.x and 1.9.2-preview3 or -head? Looks like a CSV lib issue on 1.9.2.

  • Rohit Arondekar

    Rohit Arondekar June 19th, 2010 @ 08:54 AM

    Mark, can you try adding the require for csv inside config/application.rb ? After the Bundler.require should do fine. I think this should solve your issue. Please update the ticket if this solves your problem. :)

  • Rizwan Reza

    Rizwan Reza June 19th, 2010 @ 05:21 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “invalid”
  • Mark Winkler

    Mark Winkler June 19th, 2010 @ 06:19 PM

    Adding require for csv to config/application.rb solves it.

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