Re: Active Record not found

Jan Friedrich wrote:
activerecord != active_record ;)

To require gems you need also to require rubygems:

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'


So I guess I'm really confused then. This is my final code:

require 'net/http'
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
:adapter => 'mysql',
:host => 'localhost',
:username => 'root',
:password => '',
:database => 'app_development')

class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
end

This works in IRB, and on the command line. I'm happy now, but still
wondering...

I didn't have to "require 'rubygems'" for this to work, why? Isn't
ActiveRecord a gem? And if so, shouldn't I have to use "gem
'active_record'" instead?

Also, if there wasn't an error on the _old_ line "require
'activerecord'" then ruby found something by that name ... what was it?

Finally, and this is where you can really help me: Where can I find
this info in the documentation. I've looked in the core reference, the
standard lib reference, and read the whole ActiveRecord section and
found nothing telling me how the _right_ way to include this was, what I
found was different people doing it different ways, none of which worked
for me.

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