Generator issue with Formtastic dependency

[natebird]

When I try running the surveyor generator it breaks with the following error:

script/generate surveyor rake db:migrate

/Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/.../active_support/dependencies.rb:466:in `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Formtastic::SemanticFormBuilder (NameError)
.../.../active_support/dependencies.rb:106:in `const_missing'
.../gems/surveyor-0.19.0/lib/formtastic/surveyor_builder.rb:2
.../.../active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
.../.../active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
.../.../active_support/dependencies.rb:547:in `new_constants_in'
.../.../active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
.../gems/surveyor-0.19.0/lib/surveyor.rb:3
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `each'
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `require'
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `each'
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `require'
.../gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler.rb:120:in `require'
from /Users/me/Sites/me/surveyer/config/boot.rb:119:in `load_gems'
.../gems/rails-2.3.10/lib/initializer.rb:164:in `process'
.../gems/rails-2.3.10/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `send'
.../gems/rails-2.3.10/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `run'
from /Users/me/Sites/me/surveyer/config/environment.rb:9
.../gems/rails-2.3.10/lib/commands/generate.rb:1:in `require'
.../gems/rails-2.3.10/lib/commands/generate.rb:1
from script/generate:3:in `require'
from script/generate:3

I've truncated things for easier readability.

[yoon]

when you use bundler to install the surveyor gem, haml, fastercsv, and formtastic should be installed as gem dependencies.

[yoon]

require formtastic. closed by 16acd6f

[yoon]

I was able to replicate the problem, and we'll release 0.19.1 as a fix.

[natebird]

Cool. Thanks!

[edgarsilva]

Hi, I'm still having this issue on Rails3 branch and surveyor v 0.20.0

this version: Using surveyor (0.20.0) from git://github.com/NUBIC/surveyor.git (at rails3)

I have tracked it down to the file surveyor.rb:9 where trying to access Formtastic::SemanticFormHelper.builder = Formtastic::SurveyorBuilder; it seems the require require 'formtastic/surveyor_builder' is not loading the formtastic helper or for some reason I have not figure out yet ignoring it. I have not been able to include the helper manually to see if that fixes the problem, that is what I would try next.

Any Ideas?

[yoon]

It may be due to an issue with the new version of formtastic - are you
using formtastic 2?

Mark A. Wimbiscus Yoon
Systems Analyst/Programmer Senior
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
312-503-2343
yoon@northwestern.edu
http://www.nucats.northwestern.edu

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Edgar O Silva
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

Hi, I'm still having this issue on Rails3 branch and surveyor v 0.20.0

this version: Using surveyor (0.20.0) from git://github.com/NUBIC/surveyor.git (at rails3)

I have tracked it down to the file surveyor.rb:9 where trying to access Formtastic::SemanticFormHelper.builder = Formtastic::SurveyorBuilder; it seems the require require 'formtastic/surveyor_builder' is not loading the formtastic helper or for some reason I have not figure out yet ignoring it. I have not been able to include the helper manually to see if that fixes the problem, that is what I would try next.

Any Ideas?

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[edgarsilva]

Yeap using formtastic 2.0.0 and I also tried with rc5 (it was default on my project) and it also couldn't find the constant, it seems, as you mentioned and issue with extending the SemanticFormBuilder and trying to setup the Formtastic builder to the SurveyorBuilder(I have not found the reason for this).

The default line to setup the builder = FormtasticSurveyorBuilder surveyor.rb:9 throws an unitialized constant error.

Formtastic::SemanticFormHelper.builder = Formtastic::SurveyorBuilder

It seems Formtastic does not know this has been set already, but if you try:

Formtastic::Helpers::SemanticFormHelper.builder = Formtastic::SurveyorBuilder

It says the Constant has already been initialized (Formtastic is not missing constant SemanticFormHelper!) WTF... :-S

Anyways I'm trying to find a solution for this, probably trying to setup the FormHelper.builder attr instead of the semantic one...

What do you think?

[yoon]

From: https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic

"It was previously recommended in Formtastic 1.x to subclass
Formtastic::FormBuilder to add your own inputs. This is no longer
recommended in Formtastic 2, and will not work as expected."

For now, you will have to use an earlier version of formtastic, or
rewrite our customizations in the Formtastic 2 separate class style.

Mark A. Wimbiscus Yoon
Systems Analyst/Programmer Senior
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
312-503-2343
yoon@northwestern.edu
http://www.nucats.northwestern.edu

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Edgar O Silva
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

Yeap using formtastic 2.0.0 and I also tried with rc5 (it was default on my project) and it also couldn't find the constant, it seems, as you mentioned and issue with extending the SemanticFormBuilder and trying to setup the Formtastic builder to the SurveyorBuilder(I have not found the reason for this).

The default line to setup the builder = FormtasticSurveyorBuilder surveyor.rb:9 throws an unitialized constant error.

Formtastic::SemanticFormHelper.builder = Formtastic::SurveyorBuilder

It seems Formtastic does not know this has been set already, but if you try:

Formtastic::Helpers::SemanticFormHelper.builder = Formtastic::SurveyorBuilder

It says the Constant has already been initialized (Formtastic is not missing constant SemanticFormHelper!) WTF... :-S

Anyways I'm trying to find a solution for this, probably trying to setup the FormHelper.builder attr instead of the semantic one...

What do you think?

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[edgarsilva]

I see... yeah I tried that and did not work as expected... or probably it did since I was expecting it to fail :-)...

Ok Mark sounds fine, I'll give it a try with an older version of Formtastic(any specific version you can recomend that works fine?) and I'm also going to check the Formtastic class style (is this file the SurveyorBuilder definition?), and see if something can be done. Thanks a lot for your help, if I find out anything I'll let you know.

regards

[yoon]

Edgar,

I don't have a specific version of formtastic to recommend, but
anything in the 1.x line should work.

I'm referring to:

Changing Existing Input Behavior
To modify the behavior of StringInput, subclass it in a new file,
app/inputs/string_input.rb:

at: https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic

Mark A. Wimbiscus Yoon
Systems Analyst/Programmer Senior
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
312-503-2343
yoon@northwestern.edu
http://www.nucats.northwestern.edu

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Edgar O Silva
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

I see... yeah I tried that and did not work as expected... or probably it did since I was expecting it to fail :-)...

Ok Mark sounds fine, I'll give it a try with an older version of Formtastic(any specific version you can recomend that works fine?) and I'm also going to check the Formtastic class style (is this file the SurveyorBuilder definition?), and see if something can be done. Thanks a lot for your help, if I find out anything I'll let you know.

regards

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[psamim]

I encountered the same error here, formtastic 2.2.1.