Rails can't see my controller

Question

Given:

Two controllers under /app/controllers named:

customers_controller.rb (CustomersController)
home_controller.rb (HomeController)

Problem:

When I run rails command (i.e. rails c) this is what I get:

ruby-1.9.2-p290 :001 > CustomersController
 => CustomersController 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :002 > HomeController
NameError: uninitialized constant HomeController
    from /home/aaron/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2503:in `const_missing'
    from (irb):2
    from /home/aaron/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:44:in `start'
    from /home/aaron/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
    from /home/aaron/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
    from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

So whats the deal? Why isn't HomeController being recognized by my application?

Edit:

My home_controller.rb file:

class HomeController < ApplicationController
  def index
  end

  def sign_up
  end

  def faq
  end

  def terms
  end

  def privacy
  end

  def feedback
  end

end

Theres not much in it.

please post the code in `home_controller.rb`. – agentfll Oct 02 '11 at 01:46 — agentfll, Oct 02 '11 at 01:46
@agentfll, code is posted. Probably not much help. – aarona Oct 02 '11 at 22:29 — aarona, Oct 02 '11 at 22:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

1

works for me with Rails 3.0.7 ... which version of Rails are you using?

There was a problem with old versions of Rake in the newer Rails versions, and I noticed that you're using a really old version of Rake..

Try to put this in your Gemfile:

gem 'rake' , '>= 0.9.1'

then do a "bundle update"

and try to do "rails c" again..

does it work for you afterwards?

Rails can't see my controller

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