Rails - Sep 2005 - Strange fcgi problems

Hi all,

       Can somebody please help me with this? I''ve been trying to put
up
my rails app (works perfectly on webrick) on apache2 with fcgi. I''m 
subjected to non-stop errors, it worked once, I made a change to app and 
moved it again to the server, and kaboom, it doesn''t work now. 
production.log shows this:

Processing LoginController#login (for  at Tue Sep 27 08:23:19 BST 2005)
  Parameters: {"action"=>"login",
"controller"=>"login"}


NoMethodError (undefined method `downcase'' for nil:NilClass):
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/request.rb:13:in
`method''
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/request.rb:18:in
`get?''
    /app/controllers/login_controller.rb:36:in `login''
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:756:in
`perform_action_without_filters''
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:295:in
`perform_action_without_benchmark''
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:41:in
`perform_action_without_rescue''
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:41:in
`measure''
    
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:41:in
`perform_action_without_rescue''

Thanks,
Vamsee.

what happens on line 36 in your login_controller?

Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2005, 12:41 +0530 schrieb Vamsee
Kanakala:
> Hi all,
> 
>        Can somebody please help me with this? I''ve been trying to
put up
> my rails app (works perfectly on webrick) on apache2 with fcgi.
I''m
> subjected to non-stop errors, it worked once, I made a change to app and 
> moved it again to the server, and kaboom, it doesn''t work now. 
> production.log shows this:
> 
> Processing LoginController#login (for  at Tue Sep 27 08:23:19 BST 2005)
>   Parameters: {"action"=>"login",
"controller"=>"login"}
> 
> 
> NoMethodError (undefined method `downcase'' for nil:NilClass):
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/request.rb:13:in
> `method''
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/request.rb:18:in
> `get?''
>     /app/controllers/login_controller.rb:36:in `login''
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:756:in
> `perform_action_without_filters''
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:295:in
> `perform_action_without_benchmark''
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:41:in
> `perform_action_without_rescue''
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:41:in
> `measure''
>     
>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.9.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:41:in
> `perform_action_without_rescue''
> 
> Thanks,
> Vamsee.
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Norman Timmler wrote:
>what happens on line 36 in your login_controller?
>
>  
>
Line 36 is actually pretty straightforward:

35 def login
36     if request.get?
37        session[:user_id] =nil
38        @user = User.new
39     else
...

Does that mean the request object is nil? How can that be?

Thanks,
Vamsee.

Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2005, 15:25 +0530 schrieb Vamsee Kanakala:
> Does that mean the request object is nil? How can that be?
It seems that the environment variable ''REQUEST_METHOD'' does
not get
set. But i don''t know where the failure happen. Sorry.
>From request.rb:
    # Returns the HTTP request method as a lowercase symbol (:get, for
example)
    def method
      env[''REQUEST_METHOD''].downcase.to_sym
    end

    # Is this a GET request?  Equivalent to request.method == :get
    def get?
      method == :get
    end