NameError (uninitialized constant UnknownAction)

Hi, I’m having a strange problem that only seems to be happening on our
production server. I never get this error locally but get it quite
often on the server. The other odd thing is it doesn’t seem to be
resulting in any error pages on the site. Everything looks fine…

I wanted to add a rescue_action_in_public to email me when there are
errors. So I followed the example from the agile book (p. 464). Pretty
much word for word. Here’s the error I’m occasionally seeing in the
production.log. Any ideas as to why it thinks
ActionController::UnknownAction is uninitialized?

NameError (uninitialized constant UnknownAction):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:195:in
const_missing' /app/controllers/application.rb:13:inrescue_action_in_public’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:33:in
rescue_action' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:108:inperform_action’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in
process_without_session_management_support' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:116:inprocess’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:141:inprocess_request’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in
process!' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:600:ineach_cgi’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in each_cgi' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:52:inprocess!’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:22:in
`process!’
/home/www/www.evoketv.com/htdocs/public/dispatch.fcgi:24

If you use UnknownAction in your rescue_action_in_public method, try
to use the full reference like so ::ActionController::UnknownAction

Kent.

Kent S. wrote:

If you use UnknownAction in your rescue_action_in_public method, try
to use the full reference like so ::ActionController::UnknownAction

That was the problem. Thanks!