Incompatible with gems that call `attribute` in Rails models

[ghiculescu]

I'm not sure if this is an issue with tapioca or with the downstream gem, but figured I'd report here and you can tell me to go away if necessary :)

To replicate:

• rails new tapioca-bug
• Add gem "noticed", "2.4.1" to Gemfile
• Add gem 'tapioca', require: false to Gemfile
• bundle exec tapioca init

It will raise like this:

/.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/activerecord-7.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_handler.rb:224:in `retrieve_connection_pool': No connection pool for 'ActiveRecord::Base' found. (ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished)
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/activerecord-7.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_handling.rb:329:in `connection_pool'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/activerecord-7.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_handling.rb:321:in `connection_db_config'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/activerecord-7.2.1/lib/active_record/type.rb:50:in `adapter_name_from'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/activerecord-7.2.1/lib/active_record/attributes.rb:299:in `resolve_type_name'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/activemodel-7.2.1/lib/active_model/attribute_registration.rb:14:in `attribute'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/noticed-2.4.1/app/models/noticed/event.rb:15:in `<class:Event>'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/noticed-2.4.1/app/models/noticed/event.rb:2:in `<module:Noticed>'
	from /.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/noticed-2.4.1/app/models/noticed/event.rb:1:in `<main>'

The issue is the , :json here. If you remove that, it works fine, since it doesn't need to do the type lookup anymore.

As far as I'm aware, that approach of putting models in app/models for a gem is valid, but maybe there's a more correct way to structure the gem. In any case, it works fine everywhere apart from this specific case.

The underlying issue, I think, is that Rails thinks there's no connection pool set up. This is not an issue when you boot a Rails app, it's only an issue when tapioca is eager loading.

cc @excid3

[KaanOzkan]

Looks like it's being thrown from

tapioca/lib/tapioca/runtime/reflection.rb

Lines 49 to 53 in 316688e

	def constantize(symbol, inherit: false, namespace: Object)
	namespace.const_get(symbol, inherit)
	rescue NameError, LoadError, RuntimeError, ArgumentError, TypeError
	UNDEFINED_CONSTANT
	end

It might be fine to add ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished to the rescue list and skip this constant. I'm not sure if there's anything else we can do.

If rescue can hide legitimate cases of "missing db connection" during tapioca dsl then we'd need a smarter implementation.

[bradhaydon]

I am having a similar issue when running the tapioca gem command. I have tested that adding ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished to the rescue block does resolve my issue. Is there a solution that does not immediately require the alteration of the tapioca gem?

[yiichou]

I am having the same issue with gem public_activity

[KaanOzkan]

A solution is being worked on in #2116