Example:
class Book::Page
end
class MyBook < Book
def new_page
Page.new # has to be `Book::Page` in development to make it work
end
end
Method new_page may throw an error when it was called during browser interaction in development but doesn't make the test fail.
The reason
Development autoloading isn't smart enough to find the referenced class
At other environments (test, staging, production) autoloading is disabled, that all classes are already loaded when browser interaction takes place what makes rails able to find the class even without the namespace.
Posted to makandra dev (2014-02-19 09:47)