Can't get rails to work

[Fredrik Jagenheim]

Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.

But when I try to access my newly created controller
(./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
'http://rails/foo/' I get this:

/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:32:in
`rescue_errors': undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:14:in
`initialize'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5:in `new'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5
[Tue Jul 27 02:00:06 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi


For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see
anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Have I forgot something?

//F

 

[Martin Stannard]

Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.

But when I try to access my newly created controller
(./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
'http://rails/foo/' I get this:

/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:32:in
`rescue_errors': undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
from
/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:14:in
`initialize'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5:in
`new'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5
[Tue Jul 27 02:00:06 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi


For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see
anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Have I forgot something?

//F

Did you extract with the correct flags as per
http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/GettingStartedWithRails ?

Check the permissions on the log files in rails/log and make sure they are
writeable.

regards,

Martin

 

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see

anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Have I forgot something?

Make sure you follow all the steps on
http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/GettingStartedWithRails. Sounds like
perhaps you forgot step 2, which causes the permissions to be bad. If
you're having more problems, I'm sure the friendly Railers at
#rubyonrails on FreeNET can help you
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby
http://www.instiki.org/ -- A No-Step-Three Wiki in Ruby
http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain
http://www.nextangle.com/ -- Development & Consulting Services

 

[David Morton]

Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.

But when I try to access my newly created controller
(./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
'http://rails/foo/' I get this:

Have I forgot something?

I'm still learning rails myself, but I think foo is the controller, and
you need an action to call on it: http://rails/foo/bar

 

[Jim Weirich]

Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.

But when I try to access my newly created controller
(./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
'http://rails/foo/' I get this:

/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:32:in
`rescue_errors': undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:14:in
`initialize'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5:in `new'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5
[Tue Jul 27 02:00:06 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi

For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see
anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Check the permissions on your log directory and log file and make sure
that the www-data user (or whatever apache runs as) can write to those
directories.

This stymied me for a while as well.

 

[Martin Stannard]

Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.

But when I try to access my newly created controller
(./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
'http://rails/foo/' I get this:

/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:32:in
`rescue_errors': undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
from
/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:14:in
`initialize'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5:in
`new'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5
[Tue Jul 27 02:00:06 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi


For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see
anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Have I forgot something?

//F

Check the permissions on your log files and make sure they are writeable
by all. See http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/GettingStartedWithRails

regards,

Martin

 

[Daniel Hobe]

You might need to fix the permissions on the directory where Apache will
write the log files for this virtual host.

Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.

But when I try to access my newly created controller
(./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
'http://rails/foo/' I get this:

/home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:32:in
`rescue_errors': undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:14:in
`initialize'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5:in `new'
from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5
[Tue Jul 27 02:00:06 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi


For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see
anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Have I forgot something?

//F

 

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

Check the permissions on your log directory and log file and make sure

that the www-data user (or whatever apache runs as) can write to those
directories.

This stymied me for a while as well.

This has been one of the top "stymizers" for people and a constant
source of questions on #rubyonrails. I'll make sure to rectify this
shortly! An obscure and untraceable error for something that should be
very simple. Bad Rails, Baaaad Rails!
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby
http://www.instiki.org/ -- A No-Step-Three Wiki in Ruby
http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain
http://www.nextangle.com/ -- Development & Consulting Services