ActionWebService vs. fcgi

Hi,

I have a rails-2 app that is using ActionWebService to talk to another
application.

I’m running my production app from apache, on Linux, using fcgi.

It works fine in my development environment from webrick, and it also
works using a standard cgi handler, but I’m having trouble when I
switch to fcgi.

When using fcgi, normal web pages on my app work, and two of my three
soap methods work. The other works ONCE, and then fails on subsequent
calls (from somewhere inside actionwebservice) – before it actually
calls into my controller.

If I kill the fcgi process and re-attempt the request, it works the
next time, but fails again on all subsequent attempts.

I’ve tried mucking about with adding some diagnostic code to
action_web_service/dispatcher/action_controller_dispatcher.rb and what
I’ve found is that ActiveRecord will always blow up complaining about
a missing method in nil:NilClass, if I do anythng (such as .inspect)
with the ws_request object returned from discover_web_service_request
on line 49 of that file.

Here’s a backtrace…

undefined method has_key?' for nil:NilClass <cause xsi:type="n3:NoMethodError" xmlns:n3="http://www.ruby-lang.org/xmlns/ruby/type/1.6"> <message xsi:type="xsd:string">undefined methodhas_key?’ for nil:NilClass

/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2406:in
has_attribute?&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2462:ininspect’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2461:in
collect&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2461:ininspect’
/usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:73:in
inspect&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:73:incollect’
/usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:73:in
inspect&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/dispatcher/action_controller_dispatcher.rb:55:indispatch_web_service_request’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/dispatcher/action_controller_dispatcher.rb:54:in
open&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/dispatcher/action_controller_dispatcher.rb:54:indispatch_web_service_request’
(eval):1:in api&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1162:insend’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1162:in
perform_action_without_filters&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:580:incall_filters’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:573:in
perform_action_without_benchmark&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:inperform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in
measure&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:inperform_action_without_rescue’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:201:in
perform_action_without_caching&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/sql_cache.rb:13:inperform_action’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:33:in
cache&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:8:incache’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/sql_cache.rb:12:in
perform_action&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:529:insend’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:529:in
process_without_filters&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:569:inprocess_without_session_management_support’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:130:in
process&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:389:inprocess’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:149:in
handle_request&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:107:indispatch’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:104:in
synchronize&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:104:indispatch’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:120:in
dispatch_cgi&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:35:indispatch’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:103:in
process_request&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:153:inwith_signal_handler’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:101:in
process_request&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:78:inprocess_each_request’
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/lib/fcgi.rb:612:in
each_cgi&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/lib/fcgi.rb:609:ineach’
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/lib/fcgi.rb:609:in
each_cgi&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:77:inprocess_each_request’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:76:in
catch&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:76:inprocess_each_request’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:50:in
process!&apos;</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:24:inprocess!’
/var/www/activation.widgit.com/bubblewrap/public/dispatch.fcgi:24


<excn_type_name
xsi:type=“xsd:string”>NoMethodError</excn_type_name>

Thanks,
Simon

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