error Class 'office' does not exist or contains a syntax error and could not be loaded.

[cuzic4n]

http://patshaughnessy.net/2010/2/13/creating-associations-to-existing-data-part-2-belongs_to-with-auto_complete
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once I got to here..
cuzican@CUZIVISTA ~/gitrepo/test
$ script/generate scaffold_for_view employee name:string --view belongs_to_auto_complete:office
warning Model Office does not contain a has_many association for Employee.

cuzican@CUZIVISTA ~/gitrepo/test
$ vi app/models/office.rb

i then added the has_many association.. then i got the below

cuzican@CUZIVISTA ~/gitrepo/test
$ script/generate scaffold_for_view employee name:string --view belongs_to_auto_complete:office
error Class 'office' does not exist or contains a syntax error and could not be loaded.

I tried changing office to Office and then spent all kinds of time trying different variations of the has_many.. plural.. not.. looking at my rails env.. etc.. and I wasted a bit of time because I was too stupid to notice that I was adding the has_many as follows:
has_many employees
when i should have added it as "has_many :employees" .. damn colon..
added that colon and all was well.. since you do such a good job checking for things I figured I should let u know this one so you could add a check in it and save others headaches.. or not.. ;->

p.s. nice work.

[patshaughnessy]

Thanks for trying view mapper! Hmm this is a tough one; I can see how helpful it would be to display Ruby syntax errors but I'm not sure how to do that right now. I'll do some reasearch and see if I can find a way. Right now view mapper displays that message if the class doesn't exist... which could be if you never wrote it or if Ruby returned an error trying to load it.