will_paginate undefined method. The Will_paginate gem appears to work though

Question

I\'m using rails 2.3.8

my error:

undefined method `will_paginate\' for #

in environment.rb:

Answer 1

Disable the auto-requiring of will_paginate:

# Gemfile
gem "will_paginate", "~> 2.3.15", :require => nil

And require it yourself, manually, at the end of environment.rb:

# end of environment.rb
require "will_paginate"

The thing is, if you require will_paginate before the Rails::Initializer call, it might not boostrap properly.