This is a known problem, as are camel case class names. If you look at the rspec for this you can see that the tests don't check either of these conditions.
--Mike On Sep 12, 8:51 am, Francis Joanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, thanks for your reply. > > I looked at many_to_many.rb:60 and I see exactly what you mean. > > I tried to monkey around but I haven't been lucky so far. Here are the > three roads I tried: > > 1- Tried to change ManyToMany.setup so that it parses the model_name > variable for "::" and then iteratively recreate each top/mid level > module down to the actual model class. > 2- Tried to flatten/concatenate the model names by removing any "::" > in them. > 3- Tried to remove altogether the parent namespaces at runtime by > using Extlib::Inflection.demodulize(...) > > In all cases, I ended up breaking something since other code elsewhere > seems to not be expecting "::" into the model names. Also, > Extlib::Inflection.underscore(...) sometimes created problems because > it was replacing the "::" by a "/" - which looks like it is what it's > supposed to do - but the code using it got confused by the "/". > > My guess is that this assumption is not localized to many_to_many.rb. > I might give it a shot again (I'll get to learn the code :) ) and will > keep you posted if I ever make any progress. > > Do you think I should create a new ticket in the bug tracker or reopen > one of the existing ones? > > Regards, > Francis > > On Sep 11, 6:47 pm, paulcody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Francis: I'm and newcomer to DataMapper myself; I'm having the same > > issue that I'm trying to debug now... The offending code line 60 in > > many_to_many.rb breaks as the ruby methods > > Module.const_defined?, .const_get, .const_set are not namespace > > aware. However, even when you workaround that line, it still breaks > > for reasons that I'm still working on... Any thoughts from datamapper > > developers? > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > On Sep 11, 1:16 pm, Francis Joanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm quite new to DataMapper and while implementing my model I > > > encountered the following error when trying to implement a many-to- > > > many relationship with objects that are within namespaces. > > > > I am running dm-core from the git master. I also saw that two tickets > > > (that could be related) had been opened on the bug tracker (tickets > > > 202/203). > > > > The error is: > > > > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.9.6/lib/dm-core/associations/ > > > many_to_many.rb:60:in `const_defined?': wrong constant name > > > Circus::Show::ClownMask (NameError) > > > from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.9.6/lib/dm-core/ > > > associations/many_to_many.rb:60:in `setup' > > > from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.9.6/lib/dm-core/ > > > associations.rb:122:in `has' > > > from circus.rb:10 > > > > Here's the example code (sorry if it looks lame :) ): > > > > (CODE_BEGIN) > > > require 'rubygems' > > > require 'dm-core' > > > > module Circus > > > module Show > > > > class Clown > > > include DataMapper::Resource > > > property :id, Serial > > > has n, :masks, :through => Resource > > > end > > > > class Mask > > > include DataMapper::Resource > > > property :id, Serial > > > has n, :clowns, :through => Resource > > > end > > > > end > > > end > > > > DataMapper.setup(:default, 'sqlite3::memory:') > > > DataMapper.auto_migrate!() > > > (CODE_END) > > > > Note that if I remove the Circus and Show namespaces, everything seems > > > to work fine. > > > > Thanks, > > > Francis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
