# Acts as attachment 1.1.6 crashing my application **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027 "2006-09-08T17:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/1 "2006-09-08T17:22:26Z")
hello, hopefully this makes it to the right people!! 😃 This morning I installed rmagick and imagemagick successfully, tested and all that. Everything is good. Then I went on to install acts\_as\_attachment, everything seemed good, rake test\_plugins didnt show any errors, then as soon as I tried to access my application I get the Application Error page. I tried rebooting the webserver, and it still happens. The weird thing is that as soon as I uninstall the plugin, rebooth the webserver, everything works again. I installed Acts As Attachment 1.1.6 on WinXP - ruby 1.8.4 / rails 1.1.6 I would really love to get this working today so I can move forward with the rest of the development, im still a little new though… so bare with me if its totally obvious. my plugins folder has “acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6” where the files are located. I am also unsure of how to use “ruby script/plugin install acts\_as\_attachment” to get the 1.1.6 version, today I just simple used SVN to checkout the direct link to that version, but am unaware of how to do it through command line. Thanks to anyone who can help me figure this out!! ---
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/2 "2006-09-09T01:45:23Z")
On 9/8/06, releod [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > as soon as I uninstall the plugin, rebooth the webserver, everything > works again. what’s the error message? check the logs. this should be you first stop always. – Rick O. [http://weblog.techno-weenie.net](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net) [http://mephistoblog.com](http://mephistoblog.com) ---
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/3 "2006-09-09T04:37:37Z")
hey, thanks for replying, so the error message was the standard Error that is default on all rails apps; “Application error Rails application failed to start properly” I checked the log files, and it appears they are not even being written to for this specific error. All im doing is loading either the acts\_as\_attachment, or acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6. My process is I access the application uri, then it spits out that error, then I try to refresh or access another section of the application and it just hangs the browser trying to load without showing any errors or writing to the log file or anything. Ive left it for over 4 minutes, and im just confused now heh… Hopefully that is enough info to maybe think of something, but imagemagick and rmagick both seem to be working properly… I will post more tomorrow if you need anything else, ill let you know if I get it working or not… hopefully haha… -thanks! ---
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/4 "2006-09-09T18:04:35Z")
On 9/8/06, releod [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > hey, thanks for replying, so the error message was the standard Error > that is default on all rails apps; > > “Application error > Rails application failed to start properly” No, that’s not enough. There’s a real error triggering that. – Rick O. [http://weblog.techno-weenie.net](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net) [http://mephistoblog.com](http://mephistoblog.com) ---
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/5 "2006-09-09T20:08:49Z")
This error is occuring over and over when I perform tests on the plugin. Exception working with image: ImageMagick library function failed to return a result. im lost… ---
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/6 "2006-09-10T22:31:32Z")
hey… im still not able to get my application running, the only thing I can do after a fresh install is reboot, and then I get the application error, even accessing pages without acts\_as\_attachment included. I have some info from various logos. apache: [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 109)The pipe has been ended. : FastCGI: comm with server “_path\_here_/public/dispatch.fcgi” aborted: GetOverlappedResult() failed, referer: [http://localhost/\_path\_here\_](http://localhost/_path_here_) [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server “_path\_here_/public/dispatch.fcgi”, referer: [http://localhost/\_path\_here\_](http://localhost/_path_here_) [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server (pid 4364) terminated with exit with status ‘1’ so yeah… totally messed up… I honestly do “ruby script/plugin install acts\_as\_attachment-1.1.6”, it installs, then I reboot apache webserver, and try to access my application. as soon as I remove the folder, and restart apache, the application works again. Let me know if you can think of anything, im still kinda new to this language, so it might be something super simple I dont know about yet. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@releod](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/releod)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-attachment-1-1-6-crashing-my-application/68027/7 "2006-09-09T19:38:44Z")
hah figured as much… now… when I check my development.log im not seeing anything really except the last request made, which was it “working” before I added the plugin… im using Apache. ill keep looking, keep in touch though cause Im super stoked to get this up and running heh. ps. I went through all the Rmagick and ImageMagick tests and they all worked perfectly.