Question

environment.rb:7: uninitialized constant Rails::Initializer (NameError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/application.rb:78:in `require_environment!'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:39
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
    from script/rails:6

I’m getting the preceding error, I’m trying to integrate salesforce with a rails app following the PDF here: http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relations/2011/02/a-brief-history-of-ruby-rails-with-the-forcecom-platform.html

I have made the instructions required, however it is required to edit the environment.rb
Here is my current version:

# Load the rails application
require File.expand_path('../application', __FILE__)

# Initialize the rails application
Newsletter::Application.initialize!

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.gem "asf-soap-adapter", :lib => "activerecord-activesalesforce-adapter"
  config.gem "asf-soap-adapter", :lib => 'asf-soap-adapter'
  config.database_configuration_file = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config','salesforce.yml')
  config.time_zone = 'UTC'
end 

Answer 1

I used the new Gem ‘databasedotcom’ for the same purpose which works perfectly
http://richardvanhook.github.com/databasedotcom-guide/#create_a_databasecom_account