How to resolve Rails model namespace collision

Question

The story so far:

I have a rails app with a model named \"Term\". All is well until trying to install Cucumber. Upon running

rake cucumber
         


        

Answer 1

Here's what I did:

sudo gem uninstall term-ansicolor
sudo gem uninstall cucumber

Download sources for term-ansicolor and cucumber from github
Search term-ansicolor source for "module Term" and replace with "module ANSITerm"
Search cucumber source for "include Term" and replace with "include ANSITerm"
Search cucumber source for "::Term" and replace with "::ANSITerm"

sudo gem install term-ansicolor from my local repository
sudo gem install cucumber from my local repository

Now I have two gems to maintain, but that seems easier than changing all the model references in my app.

Comments/suggestions welcome.