require_gem ‘activerecord’
A Ruby application that uses the ActiveRecord library (not a Ruby on Rails application) stopped working for me after an update of Ruby. The error message was:
-
undefined method `require_gem’ for main:Object (NoMethodError)
The corresponding source code was:
I checked the documentation and I realised that require_gem
is obsolete and gem
should be used instead:
But I got another error (the name of the class is Person):
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uninitialized constant Person::ActiveRecord (NameError)
Then I checked the documentation again (it helps usually :) and I found out that gem
only adds a path of a gem, so it is still necessary to add the require
part. But there is a tiny catch – although the gem name is activerecord, the main file name is active_record.rb, so you need to specify the active_record value:
Enjoy :)