BUG: unitialized constant Analytical::Modules::Production

[redbar0n]

Hey,

I discovered a really annoying bug when you create the analytical.yml file exactly according to the readme, like this:

production: google: key: UA-5555555-5 clicky: key: 55555

This will give the error:

uninitialized constant Analytical::Modules::Production

or

uninitialized constant Analytical::Modules::Kissmetrics

when calling the "analytical" helper from a controller or a view.

The error is resolved when removing the space before the API-keys, so the file looks like this:

production: google: key:UA-5555555-5 clicky: key:55555

This is a very annoying bug, since it's almost impossible to detect. I hope you're able to fix it soon.

PS: I would suggest to update the Readme in the meanwhile, so more people don't unnecessarily run into it by following the setup procedure there.

Cheers.

[shiftb]

The other way to fix is to add another environment setting (it can be empty):

development: production: {module}: ....

That seemed to fix it for me as well and actually handle environments correctly.

[indirect]

The actual bug here is that the gem is trying to use a module named Kissmetrics, but the module is named KissMetrics (note the difference in capitalization).

[indirect]

Sorry, should have added the solution: The solution is to capitalize your YAML keys exactly the same way the ruby modules are capitalized. Here's an example analytical.yml file.

production:
  KissMetrics:
    js_url_key: "//blah.cloudfront.net/abc.js"
development:
test:

At that point, maybe you should catch the NameError, tell the users they tried to configure something that doesn't exist, and give them a list of valid module names?

[redbar0n]

@indirect
Are you sure? Try to remove these two lines from your analytical.yml file, and see if it still works:

development:
test:

I'm suspecting it might be @shiftbs quick fix that is actually at work here.

[indirect]

Yes, I'm completely positive, because I wrote a patch that fixes it and submitted it as a pull request. :)

On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:07 AM, redbar0nreply@reply.github.com wrote:

@indirect
Are you sure? Try to remove these two lines from your analytical.yml file, and see if it still works:

development: test:

I'm suspecting it might be @shiftbs quick fix that is actually at work here.

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[redbar0n]

Ah, sweet. :-) It's still mysterious to me though how it worked for me when I removed the whitespaces, while having the same capitalization..