Ruby is already using the class name of my model

Question

I\'m making a forum application with various levels of authorization, one of which is a Monitor. I am doing this by extending my User class, and I plan on fine tuning this

Answer 1

FYI, I just found a neat trick (errr, hack) to get around this which may work.

I work on a large legacy application which, unfortunately, has a "Fixture" model which is quite important and which is used everywhere. When running tests, it's impossible to create a Fixture instance because of the Fixture class used by ActiveRecord when running tests. So I did the following:

FixtureModel = Fixture.dup

This freezes my class in place so that I can refer to it later (but just in my tests!) without being extended by the ActiveRecord Fixture class (which is not namespaced)