[Rails] Re: Does anyone know how to access a module namespace using a chained method?

If I call Engine::BlogPost everything is gravy,

If I call BlogPost then I get...

uninitialized constant BlogPost

On Jun 8, 11:35 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jun 7, 3:16 pm, frizbe1605 <frizbe1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Okay, I'm chaining methods. I want access to my class. I can access
> > SomeClass with a method like some_class. Now with engines in Rails
> > 3.1, I can use modules to break apart my codebase. So now, SomeClass
> > would beEngine::SomeClass. If I try to accessEngine::SomeClass with
> > a similar style method like engine_some_class, it returns with
> > EngineSomeClass rather thanEngine::SomeClass.
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> I think you are expecting magic where there is none. If your blog
> model has belogns_to :blog_post, ... then you'll always do
> Blog.first.blog_post, whether blog_post is a BlogPost,
> Engine::BlogPost or some other class altogether
>
> Fred
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> > Any ideas on a chainable method for accessing this class now that it
> > has the additional module namespace?
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> > Thanks,
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> > Steve
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> > On Jun 6, 1:35 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > On Jun 6, 3:34 pm, frizbe1605 <frizbe1...@gmail.com> wrote:> EngineBlogPost == @blog.engine_blog_post
> > > >Engine::BlogPost == ????????
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> > > You might want to elaborate - to me at least your question makes no
> > > sense.
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> > > Fred.
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> > > > Thanks!

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