On Apr 26, 11:27 pm, Dave Preschel <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I know this is probably something simple that I'm missing. I am trying
> to call a function that is in a module in /lib,  but the controller
> doesnt seem to be finding it.
>
If you want to be able to use the methods from a module like that you
need to include the module (or extend it if you just want to add the
methods to one instance). require (which is unnecessary here) just
asks ruby to load the file.

Fred

> I have:
>
> lib/siteopen.rb:
>
> module Siteopen
>   def is_site_open()
>     return 1
>   end
> end
>
> and in a controller:
>
> class StartupController < ApplicationController
>   require 'Siteopen'
>
>   def index
>      if is_site_open()
>         �...@sitemsg="The site is now open"
>      else
>         �...@sitemsg="Site is closed."
>       end
>    end
>  end
>
> This will give me the following error:
>
> NoMethodError in StartupController#index
> undefined method `is_site_open' for #<StartupController:0x1045b2ea8>
>
> I'm sure it's something dumb I'm doing.
> Thanks..
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