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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:19:44+00:00

This has happened before. It goes DIRECTLY AGAINST the gem’s usage documentation. Even though

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This has happened before. It goes DIRECTLY AGAINST the gem’s usage documentation.

Even though I do this:

require 'htmlentities'

and then THIS:

coder = HTMLEntities.new

yields the following message:

undefined method `new' for HTMLEntities:Module

NO! NO NO NO NO NO! HTMLEntities is a CLASS. It is NOT a module.

What in the hell is going on here? All of my reports code is broken now!

I am using rvm. I scoured my project gem directory and the global gem directory. There is NO other occurrence of HTMLEntities other than in this gem.

IRB BEHAVIOR:

In irb, if I do:

require 'ruby gems'

and:

require 'htmlentities'

then the call to HTMLEntities.new works just fine.

Somebody please help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Oh great, it looks like one of my programmers is also “helping” me. By putting adding a non-standard module in “vendor/plugins”. And it appears that it has the name “HTMLEntities”.

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