# =?utf-8?q?Newbie\_rails\_woes\_-\_the\_=27Recognition\_failed\_?= = **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 26, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-q-newbie-rails-woes-the-27recognition-failed/54221 "2006-02-26T20:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-q-newbie-rails-woes-the-27recognition-failed/54221/1 "2006-02-26T20:31:26Z")
I’m working with the agile rails book (latest rev), and have encountered more show stoppers than I woud have expected. The lastest one is rather worrying. Page 57 is somewhat notorious for breaking. There are all sorts of blogs etc about breakage and fixes since roughly Nov 05. Rails 0.14.1 and the Broken Depot Steel rails through my skull Even back then, the breakage was known and supposed to have been fixed in later versions of rails. But here I am in Feb 06, cracking up on the same issue. I updated via gems before building this depot app (gem install rails –include-dependencies) so I’m puzzled that the issue persists. I’ve not tried the manual fixes, I’m sure that they work. But I don’t understand a couple of aspects of this. If this issue was supposed to have been fixed months ago, then why do I still see it? And, why does this particular error seem to strike at the book’s sample app in particular? I’m hoping that generating a scaffold does not normally bust things up like this. If it did, most of the posts wouldn’t be around the book sample code. ## Possibly related is that while I’ve run gem install rails –include-dependencies I still have ruby 1.8.2 (why?). rails is 1.0.0. That’s not the most recent ruby but this would seem to be a rails issue not a ruby one? View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-rails-woes---the-'Recognition-failed-for-admin'-thing-t1189946.html#a3135662](http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-rails-woes---the-%27Recognition-failed-for-admin%27-thing-t1189946.html#a3135662) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-q-newbie-rails-woes-the-27recognition-failed/54221/2 "2006-02-26T20:43:37Z")
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 11:30 -0800, Michael B. wrote: > Even back then, the breakage was known and supposed to have been fixed in > book sample code. > > Possibly related is that while I’ve run gem install rails > –include-dependencies I still have ruby 1.8.2 (why?). rails is 1.0.0. > That’s not the most recent ruby but this would seem to be a rails issue not > a ruby one? * * * ruby packaging is part of your Linux distribution I am gathering - 1.8.2 should be fine and I doubt that is your problem. Your problem is not specifically mentioned so there is no way anyone could possibly help but I hope it was cathartic to mention all of this. Craig ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-q-newbie-rails-woes-the-27recognition-failed/54221/3 "2006-02-26T23:06:35Z")
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 12:42 -0800, Michael B. wrote: > "When you execute the ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin command as > > The first list provides a fix. I wasn’t so much asking about the fix, since > it seems to be well documented. I was asking “why is the error persisting > after 3-4 months after supposedly being fixed” and “why/does this error only > crop up with this tutorial app”? Question one is just a puzzlement. No big > deal really. But the second part, why is this particular simple command > failing? Why don’t all generate scaffold commands fail? > > I’m using windows. Yesterday was the first time I ran “gem install rails > –include-dependencies” and it did updates some things, pretty cool. I guess > it does not get the latest ruby? * * * The book tries to cover a lot of OS scenarios and anticipated behavior in a version that was released long after it went into print. The truth is, most people don’t use the scaffold feature after they get used to rails…they just do it themselves but it is a great feature and with some rarely used models, it’s worth doing the scaffold to get the basic CRUD stuff and then not bother with it just in case you actually need to go in a list/edit the records. I find that passing 2 names to a scaffold command to be ambiguous and thus, only pass a single controller name at the end of the command. personally, I’m not gonna spend any time considering why ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin doesn’t generate correct routing for /admin - perhaps you should contact the author. As for gems…it doesn’t update ruby - ruby is packaged by itself. Craig ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-q-newbie-rails-woes-the-27recognition-failed/54221/4 "2006-02-27T00:49:34Z")
## Ok, thanks for that input. I solved it - I have mySQL 5 installed. When I first tried using it with rails it errored out, and I resovled with the OLD\_PASSWORD fix. Later I updated rails via gem and I’m guessing that the updated switched rails’ gears and now it -expects- the later pswd format. After reading around more I got a hint of this, redid the passwords, and it’s solved. At least I think that’s what happened, it’s not utterly clear. View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-rails-woes---the-'Recognition-failed-for-admin'-thing-t1189946.html#a3138181](http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-rails-woes---the-%27Recognition-failed-for-admin%27-thing-t1189946.html#a3138181) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/utf-8-q-newbie-rails-woes-the-27recognition-failed/54221/5 "2006-02-26T21:44:27Z")
Cathartic? I hope you didn’t take that as a rant. As someone new to rails I’m just surprised that there are as many off-the-track experiences to be had in the first 57 pages of a beginners book. The current issue is not a book syntax error. These are the baby steps. I have to wonder what it’s going to be like when things get more complicated. The message title has the error message; the two links are all about the error. Here is part of the first links writeup about it (a nov 05 blog entry) “When you execute the ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin command as described on page 57, the controller files (Admin) incorrectly get named after the model (Product). The bug report at the Rails development site notes that a fix has been applied, but Iâ??ve upgraded my Rails installation and it still seems to be present.” The specific error in the browser is Routing Error Recognition failed for â??/adminâ? The first list provides a fix. I wasn’t so much asking about the fix, since it seems to be well documented. I was asking “why is the error persisting after 3-4 months after supposedly being fixed” and “why/does this error only crop up with this tutorial app”? Question one is just a puzzlement. No big deal really. But the second part, why is this particular simple command failing? Why don’t all generate scaffold commands fail? ## I’m using windows. Yesterday was the first time I ran “gem install rails –include-dependencies” and it did updates some things, pretty cool. I guess it does not get the latest ruby? View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-rails-woes---the-'Recognition-failed-for-admin'-thing-t1189946.html#a3136402](http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-rails-woes---the-%27Recognition-failed-for-admin%27-thing-t1189946.html#a3136402) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com).