Someone tell me I am NOT crazy!!!

1) michael@deathwish:~/dev/trafficapp$ cat vendor/plugins/active_rbac/init_engine.rb
require 'active_rbac_config'

# Configure the Engine's version
module ::ActiveRbacConfig::Version
  Major = 0; Minor = 3; Release = 2
end

Engines.current.version = ActiveRbacConfig::Version

# we need some fixes to rails
require 'railfix'
# require the model mixins
$:.each { |x| puts x } <--- i planted this
require 'active_rbac/exceptions'
require 'active_rbac/group_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/role_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/registration_mailer_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/static_permission_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/user_mixin'
require 'active_rbac/user_registration_mixin'


2) michael@deathwish:~/dev/trafficapp$ ls vendor/plugins/active_rbac/lib/
active_rbac  active_rbac_config.rb  railfix.rb

3) rake engines:info
(all the load paths my planted code prints)
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/vendor/
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/vendor/
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/../../action_controller/vendor/html-scanner
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/vendor
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../test/mocks/development
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/controllers/
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/models
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/controllers
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../app/helpers
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../components
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../config
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/plugins/active_rbac/lib <--- see below
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/plugins/engines/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/railties
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionmailer/lib
/home/michael/dev/trafficapp/config/../vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux

rake aborted!
no such file to load -- exceptions

4) ls vendor/plugins/active_rbac/lib/active_rbac
exceptions.rb  group_mixin.rb  registration_mailer_mixin.rb  role_mixin.rb  static_permission_mixin.rb  user_mixin.rb  user_registration_mixin.rb
^^^^^^^