failing more intelligently in init if ActiveRecord is missing

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@1196 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/rails.rb b/lib/puppet/rails.rb
index 0d01fbe07..016d7374a 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/rails.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/rails.rb
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ module Puppet::Rails
     # Set up our database connection.  It'd be nice to have a "use" system
     # that could make callbacks.
     def self.init
+        unless defined? ActiveRecord::Base
+            raise Puppet::DevError, "No activerecord, cannot init Puppet::Rails"
+        end
+
         # This global init does not work for testing, because we remove
         # the state dir on every test.
         #unless (defined? @inited and @inited) or defined? Test::Unit::TestCase