A Huge Ruby Problem

Oh my beloved ruby! How I thought you were perfect… This was the case until I realized it had a huge problem resolving classes.

Given this class:

ruby class MyModule::File end

When I try to use MyModule::File it would always resolve to the standard File class, which is not what I want and gives me a warning:

sh > MyModule::File (irb):4: warning: toplevel constant File referenced by ContentItem::File => File

I was wondering what I was doing wrong, it took me awhile to figure out, but then this stack overflow answer beautifully explained it.

It seems that naming classes under modules that have the same name in the global space is a bad idea because of how ruby resolves classes. So as a workaround, just to be safe, I always try to name my classes diffrently from any of the gem/lib classes that I use. So for this use case, I can use MyModule::FileItem.