polymorphic associations over different Namespaces - not possible?!

[mugwump]

I have the following situation:

class Housing::Kennel < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many_polymorphs :guests, :from => [:dogs,:cats,_birds]
end

class GuestKennel < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :kennel
belongs_to :guest, :polymorphic => true
end

class Pets::Dog < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Which I cannot get to run: (ActiveRecord::Associations::PolymorphicError: Could not find a valid class for :guests_kennels (tried GuestsKennel). If it's namespaced, be sure to specify it as :"guests/guests_kennels" instead.) - the error-message varies, depending in which module Kennel, GuestsKennel, Dog are put.

In the end, putting all three classes in one module and adding this module with :namespace => :housingandpets solves this issue.

Is there a way to specifiy the module for all three particpiants (Kennel, GuestsKennel, Dog) independently from each other and put them into different modules?!

(and thx for hmp anyway, works great!)

[mugwump]

Is anybody looking into this anyway?!

[ghost]

no. best bet is to make a failing test and fix it yourself; this project is in patch-accepting-mode only :-/

[mugwump]

sorry, just wondering if this was the right place to ask these kind of questions. Meanwhile I just stopped trying to put my models into modules: That produces all kinds of nasty side-efffects, not only with has_many_polymorphs - so basically, this works as designed :)

[stepheneb]

I've got a patch that fixes this (more shortly).

[stepheneb]

The namespaced_models branch in my fork supports loading names-spaced models in has_many_polymorphs autoload.rb.

Here's the commit where it was added:

http://github.com/stepheneb/has_many_polymorphs/commit/b563f4d65faabc494c8dcef3d3d5c34d2bc2af20