Rails - Dec 2005 - Re: Dreaded "Application error" Apache2

One thing that bit me was in the dispatch.fcgi. Check the first line,
is it pointing to the right spot for ruby? Looks as though your on a
linux environment, so something like ''/usr/local/bin/ruby'' or
where
ever it may be should do the trick.

If thats not it, are any log files getting generated when you try to
start apache? If so which ones?

Also, check to make sure you actually have the requested envirornments
database loaded, if not this leads to weird errors that you wouldn''t
expect (dont ask how I know). :)  Its probably not an issues as it
looks like you are trying to run in the same env as the webrick
server.

-Nick

One more note, there was another problem I had like this where the 500
error would seem to pop up and random. I also use the SaltedLogin
generator, but I have more then one class/user type that requires
authentication. I had forgot to require the second user type to my
lib/login_system.rb so that when it was getting the information from
the cookies it wouldn''t marshal the objects back out correctly. (took
me a bit to find that one too)

Hope some of this helps!
-Nick