Naming conflict in rails with "Account" model

Question

I have a model Account located under /app/models/account.rb:

class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
end

when I now request the controller I get undefined method all for Account:Module:

class AccountsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @accounts = Account.all
  end
end

I tried renaming the model to Accounte which does work. However I see a lot of rails tutorials working with Account models and it is really hard to find other names.

How do I locate and disable the Account module to clear this naming conflict?

I can access the bad Account through rails console.

I assume you don't have a module named `Account` in your own codebase, what gems are in your Gemfile — Uri Agassi, Nov 19 '14 at 20:08
Do you have any gems that might be adding an `Account` module? — Paul Richter, Nov 19 '14 at 20:08
Also, [try this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10407131/877472), it might help you figure out where this other `Account` module is being defined. — Paul Richter, Nov 19 '14 at 20:11
@UriAgassi I have `rails~4.1.8`, `mysql2~0.3.17` and `spring`. — bodokaiser, Nov 19 '14 at 20:45
@PaulRichter I only get an empty array back with your method. — bodokaiser, Nov 19 '14 at 20:45
Ah I just found out that I initially ran `rails new account` so `config/application.rb` defines `module Account`. — bodokaiser, Nov 19 '14 at 20:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '14 at 09:09

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Problem was that I used rails new account which creates a module Account in config/application.rb. This caused the naming trouble.

answered Nov 20 '14 at 09:09

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