# Application error (Rails) **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941 "2006-03-14T23:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/1 "2006-03-14T23:17:56Z")
After I attempted to add ActionMailer functionality, it gave the “Application error (Rails)” and now, everything on my site works, except for the part where the Actionmailer ‘would have’ sent the email. I took that out now, re-uploaded the file, and ran “killall -USR1 dispatch.fcgi” and still nothing. Everything else works, except that. Any idea what else was affected? Should I just copy my app folder overtop of it again? Thanks for any help…I really want to fix this! ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/2 "2006-03-16T04:16:01Z")
What is your log displaying? ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/3 "2006-03-16T15:22:30Z")
Suggestion to core developers: Have an configuration option that you can set to allow exception tracebacks to appear in production mode (like that which appears in development mode) rather than “Application Error (Rails)”. We would much prefer that a user can report (or take a screen dump) when an error occurs so that we can see what went wrong - instead of the Application Error where we have to try and figure out what he was doing at the time… etc… Thanks for the consideration. ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/4 "2006-03-16T15:41:18Z")
in production.rb change ActionController::Base.consider\_all\_requests\_local = false to ActionController::Base.consider\_all\_requests\_local = true On Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Richard W. wrote: > Thanks for the consideration. > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) > Mikkel B. www.strongside.dk - Football Portal(DK) [nflfeed.helenius.org](http://nflfeed.helenius.org) - Football News(DK) ting.minline.dk - Buy Old Stuff!(DK) ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/5 "2006-03-16T04:12:54Z")
is your configuration correct for the environment your server is running in? You need to be sure that sendmail (with the -i -t options) works or you have the correct smtp settings for ActionMailer ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/6 "2006-03-16T16:21:25Z")
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:20 +0000, Richard W. wrote: > Thanks for the consideration. * * * I think you can adjust the environment file to act similarly - the issue is that the ‘tracebacks’ is more of what is considered ‘local’ There is a methodology to trap the errors and use ActionMailer to send an email (presumably to the developer) in the AWDWR book and I asked about this a week ago and I think the upshot was that something inside of Rails changed since the book was published that caught Dave unaware… [http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-March/023405.html](http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-March/023405.html) which suggests that following the methodology in the book is probably not a very good idea. In my drive to finish the most perplexing problems so I can move on, this still remains on my list of things to do so it appears that the only methodology that _ **should** _ work would be here… [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureTheErrorPageForYourRailsApp](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureTheErrorPageForYourRailsApp) [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoSendEmailWhenRailsThrowsAnException](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoSendEmailWhenRailsThrowsAnException) Craig ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/7 "2006-03-17T15:25:10Z")
Thanks for the responses. I will define a local\_request? method in the app as a solution. class ApplicationController \< ActionController::Base def local\_request? false end end ---
**Author:** ![hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hreyaatnh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hreyaatnh)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-error-rails/81941/8 "2006-03-24T22:00:53Z")
> in production.rb > > change > ActionController::Base.consider\_all\_requests\_local = false > > to > > ActionController::Base.consider\_all\_requests\_local = true Exactly what I needed. production.rb is config/environments/production.rb