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Rails 3 and RightAws 2.0.0

01 Feb 2011

If you intend to use right_aws for interacting with S3 or other AWS services you will need, for the time being, to use the git HEAD rather than the gem. At the time of writing, the most recent gem release, 2.0.0, included some core extensions which were incompatible with similar extensions added by ActiveSupport.

I encountered the problem in a Rails 3 application which used Devise for authentication. After adding right_aws to the Gemfile, my tests suddenly started failing with the following error:

wrong constant name Devise/sessionsController (ActionController::RoutingError)

After some poking around I discovered this thread which suggested right_aws was defining a version of String#camelize which was incompatible with the version defined by ActiveSupport (ActionController was obviously expecting Devise::SessionsController). The Rightscale team were aware of the issue and have already committed a fix, but the new gem has not yet been released.

Until it is, you can do one of two things:

  1. Update your Gemfile to install right_aws directly from the git repository like so (the dependency on right_http_connection is required, as the as-yet-unrelease version of right_aws depends on the as-yet-unreleased version of right_http_connection):
  2. Continue using the 2.0.0 gem, but modify config/application.rb as below:

The latter suggestion comes from a comment Koz added to the issue discussion. The ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions module is defined before any other gems are loaded (before the call to Bundler.require) which I suppose ends up signaling to right_aws not to define the conflicting version of String#camelize.

Both of these suggestions worked for me on an application using Rails 3.0.3 (and Devise 1.2.rc) on Ruby 1.9.2p136.

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