# Blank pages, 'missing default helper path rails\_info\_helper' **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blank-pages-missing-default-helper-path-rails-info-helper/51290 "2005-12-29T05:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blank-pages-missing-default-helper-path-rails-info-helper/51290/1 "2005-12-29T05:27:07Z")
Environment: - OS X 10.4.3 - Ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0] - Rails (1.0.0, 0.13.1) - WEBrick 1.3.1 - Following the wiki directions, I did the OSX fixrbconfig thing, installed Rails, MySQL, etc… Please bear with me, I’m new to Rails. I successfully followed the ‘depot’ application from the Agile Web Development with Rails book, building it piece by piece with no problems. I then went to start a new Rails project in a clean empty directory using the command ‘rails testing’ without problems. When I started the server, I could access the default index page, but nothing else would work. Not even the “About your application’s environment link” on the index page. Worse, any page I accessed besides the default index page results in no data/blank page, and WEBrick entry that looks like: `127.0.0.1 - - [28/Dec/2005:23:00:46 EST] “GET /aaa HTTP/1.1” 500 0` That happens no matter which URL I access, including a controller/action I built, a controller that doesn’t exist, and like I mentioned, the /rails\_info/properties that’s called on the “About your application’s environment link.” I’ve tried deleting my Rails project, recreating it, creating some controllers, scaffolding, etc… tried copying my working config/databases.yml to config/, etc. Absolutely no difference. And yet if I go back to my depot directory and start the server, that one still works perfectly. I haven’t changed anything since I first built the depot app a few days ago. I can’t think of what’s going on. Any ideas? I’m dying to build more stuff. ---
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blank-pages-missing-default-helper-path-rails-info-helper/51290/2 "2005-12-29T05:45:24Z")
Oops, assumed Textile formatting. One thing I forgot to mention. The only logged error I do see is this one when trying to access in environment-link on the default index page: Controllers::RailsInfoController: missing default helper path rails\_info\_helper No other errors get logged. I even tried to add a controller with a corresponding action that did logger.error(“testing”), but that didn’t get logged. Weird, huh? ---
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blank-pages-missing-default-helper-path-rails-info-helper/51290/3 "2005-12-29T05:59:01Z")
John M. wrote: > Oops, assumed Textile formatting. > > One thing I forgot to mention. The only logged error I do see is this > one when trying to access in environment-link on the default index page: > > Controllers::RailsInfoController: missing default helper path > rails\_info\_helper > > No other errors get logged. I even tried to add a controller with a > corresponding action that did logger.error(“testing”), but that didn’t > get logged. > > Weird, huh? Never mind. Found this in today’s IRC log: [06:41] \ Does anyone have an idea why webrick is launching RoR with 1.0 rails? I’m trying to access [http://127.0.0.1:3000/foobar](http://127.0.0.1:3000/foobar) on a fresh rails application (read: foobar is not valid) and I get blank pages. I’m on Os X and have ruby 1.8.2 … [06:44] \ I removed /tmp/ruby\_sess\* [06:44] \ and it works … strange ---
**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blank-pages-missing-default-helper-path-rails-info-helper/51290/4 "2005-12-29T13:26:25Z")
Hi, Maybe try clearing the sessions? `rm /tmp/ruby_sess*` -r On 12/28/05, John M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ## I successfully followed the ‘depot’ application from the Agile Web data/blank page, and WEBrick entry that looks like: controllers, scaffolding, etc… tried copying my working > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Ryan R. [http://www.rockefeller.edu](http://www.rockefeller.edu) – Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology [http://www.worldmartial.com](http://www.worldmartial.com) – Black Belt Instructor [http://locomotive.sourceforge.net](http://locomotive.sourceforge.net) – Self contained one-click Rails for Mac OS X