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A copy of ApplicationController has been removed from the module tree but is still active

Asked 2009-08-07T02:14:14.480
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Whenever two concurrent HTTP requests go to my Rails app, the second always returns the following error:

A copy of ApplicationController has been removed from the module tree but is still active!

From there it gives an unhelpful stack trace to the effect of "we went through the standard server stuff, ran your first before_filter on ApplicationController (and I checked; it's just whichever filter runs first)", then offers the following:

/home/matchu/rails/torch/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:414:in `load_missing_constant'

/home/matchu/rails/torch/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:96:in `const_missing'

which I'm assuming is a generic response and doesn't really say much.

Google seems to tell me that people developing Rails Engines will encounter this, but I don't do that. All I've done is upgrade my Rails app from 2.2 (2.1?) to 2.3.

What are some possible causes for this error, and how can I go about tracking down what's really going on? I know this question is vague, so would any other information be helpful?

More importantly: I tried doing a test run in a "production" environment just now, and the error doesn't seem to persist. Does this only affect development, then, and need I not worry too much?

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We called out to an activerecord model in a namespaced module which overrides the "name" class method. Rails expects that the name method returns Product::Categories::MilkProducts::Firstproduct but gets just Firstproduct and throws an error. So if you get this error first check if you redefined self.name.

  • Firstproduct.method(:name).owner should be Module
  • Firstproduct.method(:name).source_location

source:

module Product::Categories::MilkProducts
  class Base
    def self.name
      self.to_s.demodulize
    end
  end
  class Firstproduct < Base
    self.product = Product.first
  end
end
answered 2011-03-29T08:59:20.313

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