Rails - May 2006 - SOLVED: Re: How to debug the rendering in Rails?

It seems to be working now.

I used "puts" debug statement that were rendered to the webrick
console in
the dev environment, but that made fastcgi trip ...

Cheers,
Mariano

On 5/18/06, Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I have some controller code like this:
>
>     def mailing_lists
>     @ml = MailingList.find_by_identifier(@params[:id])
>     @messages = @ml.messages
>     @headers["Content-Type"] = "application/atom+xml"
>     @response.headers[''Last-Modified''] = @
> messages.last.created_on.httpdate unless @messages.empty?
>
>     minTime =
Time.rfc2822(@request.env["HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE"]) rescue
> nil
>     if minTime and @ messages.first.created_on <= minTime
>       render :text => ''Not Modified'', :status =>
304
>     end
>   end
>
>   This works fine in development, but not in production. The funny thing
> is that tailing production.log I can see that http status code 200 or 304
> is returned, but in the apache access log I can see that 500 is returned.
> The latter is what I can also see in the browser.
>
>   I am wondering how to debug that... Putting rescues anywhere in the
> above mentionend code has no effect. So I guess it is in the render method
> that is called when no other explicit render invocation happend before?
>
>   I also don''t see anything I print with puts. In the dev
environment and
> webrick I can see this output in the webrick console, but in production
> (apache, fastcgi) I don''t know where to find this output.
access.log ,
> error.log, production.log and the fastcgi logs don''t contain my
puts
> output.
>
>   Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Mariano
>
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