Expected to define. When calling class inside a module

Question

I new to rails. I have a setup in the lib directory like so:

lib/
   blog/
     core/
        search/
            base.rb

The base.rb defin

Answer 1

I had the same issue. The problem was because I was including subdirs without including their parent lib dir:

# did not work
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib/foo)

and

# in lib/foo/my_class.rb
module Foo
  class MyClass
  end
end

Foo::MyClass would return Expected to define MyClass

adding the lib dir to config.autoload_paths fixes the problem

# worked
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib #{config.root}/lib/foo)