Ruby Name Error - Uninitialized constant

Question

I am doing exercises and am getting NameError:Unitialized Constant MyUnitTests::Room when running test_ex47.rb.

test_ex47.rb:

require 'test/unit'
require_relative '../lib/ex47'

class MyUnitTests < Test::Unit::TestCase
    def test_room()
        gold = Room.new("Gold Room", """This room has gold in it you can grab. There's a doo to the north.""")
    assert_equal(gold.name, "GoldRoom")
    assert_equal(gold.paths, {})
end

def test_room_paths()
    center = Room.new("Center", "Test room in the center.")
    north = Room.new("North", "Test room in the north.")
    south = Room.new("South", "Test room in the south.")

    center.add_paths({:north => north, :south => south})
    assert_equal(center.go(:north), north)
    assert_equal(center.go(:south), south)
end

def test_map()
    start = Room.new("Start", "You can go west and down a hole.")
    west = Room.new("Trees", "There are trees here, you can go east.")
    down = Room.new("Dungeon", "It's dark down here, you can go up.")

    start.add_paths({:west => west, :down => down})
    west.add_paths({:east => start})
    down.add_paths({:up => start})

    assert_equal(start.go(:west), west)
    assert_equal(start.go(:west).go(:east), start)
    assert_equal(start.go(down).go(up), start)
end

end

ex47.rb is located in the lib folder and looks like:

class Room
aatr_accessor :name, :description, :paths

def initialize(name, description)
    @name = name
    @description = description
    @paths = {}
end

def go(direction)
    @paths[direction]
end

def add_paths(paths)
    @paths.update(paths)
end
end

Error:

Finished tests in 0.000872s, 3440.3670 tests/s, 0.0000 assertions/s.

  1) Error:
test_map(MyUnitTests):
NameError: uninitialized constant MyUnitTests::Room
    test_ex47.rb:22:in `test_map'

  2) Error:
test_room(MyUnitTests):
NameError: uninitialized constant MyUnitTests::Room
    test_ex47.rb:6:in `test_room'

  3) Error:
test_room_paths(MyUnitTests):
NameError: uninitialized constant MyUnitTests::Room
    test_ex47.rb:12:in `test_room_paths'

3 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 3 errors, 0 skips]

Not sure if this is just in your question and not in your actual code, but in the Room class you currently have aatr_accessor rather than attr_accessor. — mikej
– mikej, Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 7:21
Thanks mikej. Fixed that and a few other such things, stil the same error. >:| — septerr
– septerr, Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 0:35

Samwhoo · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-30 17:58:25Z

The problem here is that you are creating a Room object inside the MyUnitTests class on line 3. Ruby thinks you want to use a class called MyUnitTest::Room, which doesn't exist. You need to use an absolute class reference, like so:

class MyUnitTests < Test::Unit::TestCase
    def test_room()
        gold = ::Room.new("Gold Room", """This room has gold in it you can grab. There's a doo to the north.""")
    assert_equal(gold.name, "GoldRoom")
    assert_equal(gold.paths, {})
end

Notice the :: before Room.new on line 3 there? That tells Ruby that you want to create a Room object from the top level name space :)

I hope that answers your question.

EDIT: You'll also need to change your other references to the Room class to ::Room. Sorry, I thought only the top one was a problem because of the indentation. A closer look reveals that the rest need the :: as well.

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