Sitepress does not work on Rails 7.1: "uninitialized constant PageHelper"

[collimarco]

I am upgrading a Rails application that uses Sitepress from Rails 7 to Rails 7.1.1.

After the upgrade I get this error that prevents all tests from running:

$ bundle exec rspec

An error occurred while loading ./spec/api/application_spec.rb.
Failure/Error: require 'rspec/rails'

NameError:
  uninitialized constant PageHelper
# ./spec/rails_helper.rb:7:in `<top (required)>'
# ./spec/api/application_spec.rb:1:in `require'
# ./spec/api/application_spec.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'

The error is definitely related to this gem because I don't have any other PageHelper (I have only the default one included by Sitepress). I also made some research and I found this old related issue: rails/rails#43205 (I also tried to run the tests again, as suggested in that issue, but the problem persists).

Do you have any idea on how to solve this?

[collimarco]

The loading issue is also present in the other environments (not just in the test env). For example:

undefined method `link_to_page' for #<ActionView::Base:0x000000000181c8>

link_to_page is a method defined in Sitepress PageHelper, so it means that that file is not loaded/required properly in the new Rails versions.

[collimarco]

Here's a temporary workaround for this issue:

# config/application.rb
config.autoload_paths << config.root.join('app/content/helpers')

This code (or something similar) should probably go inside this gem directly.

[collimarco]

It's even worse... While the workaround works on my local machine, the tests running on GitHub CI fail with a new error:

An error occurred while loading ./spec/api/application_spec.rb.
Failure/Error: require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)

Zeitwerk::NameError:
  expected file /home/runner/work/myapp/myapp/app/content/models/page_model.rb to define constant Models::PageModel, but didn't

[collimarco]

This seems to fix both errors:

# config/application.rb

config.autoload_paths << config.root.join('app/content/helpers')
config.autoload_paths << config.root.join('app/content/models')

This code (or something equivalent) should be added to this gem, in order to solve this issue.

[bradgessler]

It's an issue with autoloading changes introduced in Rails 7.1. Checkout the issue at #47 for more info.

[moviendome]

Just upgraded to 7.1.2 and now it's working.

[bradgessler]

Great! Closing issue.

[collimarco]

Just upgraded to 7.1.2 and now it's working.

Yes, great, I confirm!