I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more errors can I take before I give up. RAILS IS NOT NICE After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON... now the latest error `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError) is now coming up due to some missing code in the latest rails 2.3.3, so now I have to hack the application to try to get it to work, but surely isnt there a simple way to move between rails versions without having to refactor an entire application (xlsuite) to even get it to work? I;ve encountered 100''s of glitches between os, ruby and rails versions, simply none of it works and its totally annoying as NO ONE seems to have a clue and forums are just a nice place to get lost and go round in circles... What can I do --- simple answer please.. fresh install of xlsuite and dozens of gems, fresh install of debian - not the best choice I know for rails gem update --system doesnt work, nor does the gem install rails, NOTHING WORKS!!!!!!!!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
List your current Ruby and Rails versions (i.e. the versions you are upgrading from). Check to ensure that you have all your gems configured properly and perform a rake gems install to see if they are all installed properly. Keep in mind that in production you are using RAILS_ENV=production rake ... Start with the simplest things first. What are you using with Rails, mongrel or passenger? There are a lot of ways to handle this - I''d start with the patient one. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
This kind of attitude and message will only make you be ignored. Try to be supportive and explain correctly your issues instead of bashing the framework, ''cos the error usually lies in your code. This specific error means that your code is meant for a previous version of rails, probably 2.2 and you can either change it to point to ActionController::Request or use an old Rails version. - Maurício Linhares http://codeshooter.wordpress.com/ | http://twitter.com/mauriciojr On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Arthur Rats<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on > debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more > errors can I take before I give up. > > RAILS IS NOT NICE > > After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, > Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON... > > now the latest error > > `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant > ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError) > > is now coming up due to some missing code in the latest rails 2.3.3, so > now I have to hack the application to try to get it to work, but surely > isnt there a simple way to move between rails versions without having to > refactor an entire application (xlsuite) to even get it to work? > > I;ve encountered 100''s of glitches between os, ruby and rails versions, > simply none of it works and its totally annoying as NO ONE seems to have > a clue and forums are just a nice place to get lost and go round in > circles... > > What can I do --- simple answer please.. > > fresh install of xlsuite and dozens of gems, > fresh install of debian - not the best choice I know for rails > > gem update --system doesnt work, nor does the gem install rails, NOTHING > WORKS!!!!!!!!! > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >
On Aug 24, 9:26 pm, Arthur Rats <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on > debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more > errors can I take before I give up. > > RAILS IS NOT NICE > > After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, > Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON... > > now the latest error > > `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant > ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError) > > is now coming up due to some missing code in the latest rails 2.3.3, so > now I have to hack the application to try to get it to work, but surely > isnt there a simple way to move between rails versions without having to > refactor an entire application (xlsuite) to even get it to work? > > I;ve encountered 100''s of glitches between os, ruby and rails versions, > simply none of it works and its totally annoying as NO ONE seems to have > a clue and forums are just a nice place to get lost and go round in > circles... > > What can I do --- simple answer please.. > > fresh install of xlsuite and dozens of gems, > fresh install of debian - not the best choice I know for rails > > gem update --system doesnt work, nor does the gem install rails, NOTHING > WORKS!!!!!!!!! > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.I''ve had bad luck with Debian''s Ruby packages. First thing I do when I build a new ubuntu server is pull down a fresh copy of the ruby source from ruby-lang.org and compile it. Then I install rubygems and rails. It seems to me that you''re having more issues just trying to get up and running with Rails than you are deploying applications, which is an entirely different monster all together. Here''s a method of installing rails that I know from experience works on debian/ubuntu: http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/3/3/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-ubuntu I''d get rid of all of the debian ruby/rails packages that you have first, then use the method in the blog post I linked to. I''d install ruby 1.8.7 instead of 1.8.6 that''s mentioned in the blog though.
On Aug 24, 9:26 pm, Arthur Rats <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on > debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more > errors can I take before I give up. > > RAILS IS NOT NICE > > After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, > Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON... > > now the latest error > > `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant > ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError) > > is now coming up due to some missing code in the latest rails 2.3.3, so > now I have to hack the application to try to get it to work, but surely > isnt there a simple way to move between rails versions without having to > refactor an entire application (xlsuite) to even get it to work? > > I;ve encountered 100''s of glitches between os, ruby and rails versions, > simply none of it works and its totally annoying as NO ONE seems to have > a clue and forums are just a nice place to get lost and go round in > circles... > > What can I do --- simple answer please.. > > fresh install of xlsuite and dozens of gems, > fresh install of debian - not the best choice I know for rails > > gem update --system doesnt work, nor does the gem install rails, NOTHING > WORKS!!!!!!!!! > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.Yeah freaking with "NOTHING WORKS!!!!!!!!!" isn''t really the best approach when... trying to do anything. Regardless, having never heard of xlsuite before your post, I figured I''d try to get it running to try to see where things might go have gone wrong. First, ran git clone git://github.com/xlsuite/xlsuite.git. Then, as you mentioned the "ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError)" error, I tried to find out from their site what version of Rails it requires. Apparently doesn''t matter, as they''ve frozen Rails with their app, so it will always use the bundled version rather than whatever you happen to have installed via RubyGems. Next, I followed the instructions in the INSTALL file: = Basic Installation XLsuite is built on-top of MySQL and cannot currently use any other database servers. 1. cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml 2. Edit config/database.yml to suit you (must use MySQL) 3. rake db:create db:structure:load db:bootstrap 4. script/server 5. http://localhost:3000/ = Complete Installation You will need to register an account at Amazon''s Web Services to use the Simple Storage Service (S3). XLsuite stores it''s assets in S3. You may configure Asset to store the files on the local filesystem by changing the :storage key of the #has_attachment call to :file_system. If you want to integrate with Google Maps, you''ll need a Google Maps API key. Update the Configuration named :google_maps_api_key with your key. = Running the tests 1. rake db:create RAILS_ENV=test 2. rake After creating my database user and configuring database.yml accordingly, I ran "rake db:structure:load db:bootstrap" (as I don''t give my development roles SUPER privileges." I *did* get an error here though: (in /home/xeno/projects/ xlsuite) Missing these required gems: RedCloth ~> 4.0 You''re running: ruby 1.8.7.72 at /usr/bin/ruby1.8 rubygems 1.3.5 at /home/xeno/.gem/ruby/1.8, /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 Run `rake gems:install` to install the missing gems. So I ran sudo rake gems:install (again, I''m not running as the superuser). RedCloth installed successfully, as did the database rake commands now. Then I ran ./script/server, browsed to http://localhost:3000, and after waiting for whatever it is XLSuite does, was greeted with the login page. a Relevant information for my environment is: xeno@Clover:~/projects/xlsuite$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l xeno@Clover:~/projects/xlsuite$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux] Using the distro''s Ruby, not anything custom compiled here. So, before trying to hack away for no reason at code you do not understand, what *are* the errors you''re encountering, and what are you doing to resolve each individual error as it happens?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Arthur Rats wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:26580414b1995db8acc429f1e992d95f-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more errors can I take before I give up. RAILS IS NOT NICE After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON... ... </pre> </blockquote> My approach is to freeze all of your rails and gems into your system. Its usually all ruby (except for the odd library) and for me it has worked between Ubuntu and Windows without problems (other than unavoidable OS stuff). If you freeze it you know that you have the same version of ROR and all of your gems no matter where you deploy. You are only depending on the system you go to to have a working version of ruby and a database that really works (and puts its sockets in the same place as others). There is an approach in Rails Recipes to handle the sockets which different distributions seem to misplace.<br> <br> Norm<br> <br> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. <br> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <br> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <br> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en<br> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---<br> </body> </html> <br>
Arthur Rats wrote:> I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on > debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more > errors can I take before I give up. > > RAILS IS NOT NICE > > After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, > Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON...Try Heroku. "git push heroku master" and you''re deployed. End of story. http://heroku.com - D -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Thanks for all of the posts, AplhaBlue - sorry fell asleep Maurício -agreed, wasnt the best tone... Jason Stewart (thanks) debian - and Ruby is a little odd so first was to get the basic bundle of Ruy working, got it correct now to v1.8 then did the pharrington routine and same process rake gems:install produced nothing but error, to start with I had nokogiri missing cant load file... manual install of the gem and re try then had FightTheMelons constant not found then imagemagick /rmagick was missing - still couldnt get this working then RedCloth (as yours did) but couldnt run the db:create at all, have rails v.2.2.2 now in place tried it as above and it still failed to run Danny, tried your idea and it worked Thanks all, I eventually went back to Fedora and it worked with the instructions combined from above. :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
ok guys, stage 2 got through to run rake rake db:create db:structure:load db:bootstrap but got the rmagick error again, although it is installed and works for other apps any ideas? I''ve tried quite a few installs but it seems to fail -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
this is on Debian again, - Fedora worked ok but I have to learn how to do this!!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
got debian & xlsuite working, nearly, ran script/server and got some errors NoMethodError in Pages#show Showing app/views/accounts/new.html.erb where line #8 raised: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.name this happens on all pages. /admin, etc is there a way to turn this error trapping off in rails/ruby? or is this some data missing in the db? thanks Arthur -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
For "rmagick" error: have u got the following debian packages installed? imagemagick librmagick-ruby librmagick-ruby1.8 on debian, check using dpkg --get-selections | grep magick Pradeep
thanks! working better now -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
still in xlsuite get the nil errors... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Aug 25, 8:35 am, Arthur Rats <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> got debian & xlsuite working, nearly, ran script/server and got some > errors > > NoMethodError in Pages#show > > Showing app/views/accounts/new.html.erb where line #8 raised: > > You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! > The error occurred while evaluating nil.name > > this happens on all pages. /admin, etc > > is there a way to turn this error trapping off in rails/ruby? or is this > some data missing in the db? >You''ll get a lot farther if you *read* the error messages. The message above is telling you there''s an error on line 8 of app/views/accounts/ new.html.erb. The offending bit of code is: @_parent_domain.name That variable is set in a before_filter on AccountController, line 386: @_parent_domain = self.get_request_parent_domain get_request_parent_domain is defined on ApplicationController, lines 457-466. It''s looking for a Domain record to match the last parts of the incoming request''s domain. If none is found, it''s returning Domain.find_by_name(''xlsuite.com''). Digging around further, it appears that the db:bootstrap rake tast (that it tells you to run in INSTALL) sets up the initial host mapping for localhost - or tries to, as I think it will only work if you''ve set up subdomains off of localhost (it drops the first part of the domain). If you''ve got it deployed on a server with a DNS name rather than locally, you''ll either need to make sure that it''s set up with a subdomain (xlsuite.somedomain.com vs. somedomain.com) or you could simply change the default case the the bottom of get_request_parent_domain to return the right record. Hope this helps! --Matt Jones
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Arthur Rats<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> fresh install of debian - not the best choice I know for railsWorks fine for me, something like 5 years now. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/
matt, thanks, dont suppose you can work this one out.. login admin@localhost pw: adminadmin as per the bootstrap rake task it should load the values into the db, it does and a record is created for parties with a pw but simply not possible to log in via a browser XlSuite::AuthenticatedUser::UnknownUser i can trace it back to see that in xlsuite and see email.routable is set but doesnt seem to work, i''ve dropped the db - re tried and still the same I''ve been into Ruby now for a few months and still learning so thanks for your support.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.