I’m getting to the point now where I really need to start trapping the
errors.
So from my AWDWR book, I added the following directly from the book into
application.rb…
def rescue_action_in_public(exception)
case exception
when ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, ActionController::UnknownAction
render(:file => “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/404.html”,
:status => “404 Not Found”)
else
render(:file => “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/500.html”,
:status => “500 Error”)
SystemNotifier.deliver_exception_notification(
self, request, exception)
end
end
end
and copied the file…app/models/system_notifier.rb changing the first
line ‘pathname’ to the actual path to the base of my ruby application
and then finally copied the file and folder for system_notifier…into
app/views/system_notifier/exception_notification
which includes the line…
<% require ‘pp’ -%>
and I am thinking that this may be my problem - I am not sure. How do I
solve it?
if it matters, the complete trace of the error… (where line 54 is the
line immediately after the ‘end’ of the ApplicationController
definition). Note that this error (development on webrick) differs
slightly from (production on Apache w/fcgi) but the net effect is the
same.
SyntaxError (./script/…/config/…/app/controllers/application.rb:54:
syntax error):
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:207:in
load' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:207:inload’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:39:in
require_or_load' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:22:independ_on’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:178:in
require_dependency' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:134:inload_file!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:97:in
const_load!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:80:inconst_load!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:71:in
prepare_application' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:37:indispatch’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:117:in
handle_dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:83:inservice’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in service' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:inrun’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in start_thread' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:instart_thread’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:instart’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:instart’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:69:in
dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59 /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:inrequire’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in
require' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/server.rb:28 /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:inrequire’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in
`require’
script/server:3
Rendering
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/templates/rescues/layout.rhtml
(500 Internal Error)
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Craig W. wrote:
if it matters, the complete trace of the error… (where line 54 is
the
line immediately after the ‘end’ of the ApplicationController
definition). Note that this error (development on webrick) differs
slightly from (production on Apache w/fcgi) but the net effect is the
same.
If you get a syntax error at the end of a file, it probably means
you’re missing an ‘end’ keyword.
Dave
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:44 -0600, Dave T. wrote:
you’re missing an ‘end’ keyword.
I have to laugh at this because I ‘added’ an extra end to your code (p
464 - Third printed version Sept 2005)
it doesn’t seem right to me - but a quick test and it all seems to be
happy - further testing to come
Thanks
Craig
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 18:26 -0700, Craig W. wrote:
:status => "404 Not Found")
and then finally copied the file and folder for system_notifier…into
app/views/system_notifier/exception_notification
I can get started but when it comes time to trap an error, I get the
following logged (this is in production/Apache-fcgi)
NameError (uninitialized constant UnknownAction):
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:195:in
const_missing' /app/controllers/application.rb:12:inrescue_action_in_public’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:33:in
rescue_action' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:108:inperform_action’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in
process_without_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:116:inprocess’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:141:inprocess_request’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in
process!' /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:600:ineach_cgi’
/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in each_cgi' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:52:inprocess!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:22:in
`process!’
/home/craig/ruby-db/th-db/public/dispatch.fcgi:24
I’m a little over my head here, thinking that ‘UnknownAction’ was a
rails built-in class
Craig
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 21:49 -0500, Kent S. wrote:
It is. Use the full name like ::ActionController::UnknownAction
then why does it error, unitialized constant?
Craig
It is. Use the full name like ::ActionController::UnknownAction
Kent.
Because Ruby tries to find UnknownAction constant in
ActionWebService::Container::ActionController module.
–
Kent
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 22:32 -0500, Kent S. wrote:
then why does it error, unitialized constant?
ok - is it possible to reduce it down for someone who clearly doesn’t
have a big picture view here?
I see
http://rails.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionWebService/Container/ActionController/ClassMethods.html
but it doesn’t make sense as to how I might implement and I am just
taking this from the AWDWR book and it seemed to be ready for prime
time.
the Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers errata page has a note
about this…
464
#2298: I don’t know if this is a problem with Rails 1.0, Ruby 1.8.4, or
something else entirely, but I could not get the rescue_action_in_public
to load properly until I changed it. Ruby kept complaining that
UnknownAction was an uninitialized constant. At first I just removed it,
but that was unsatisfactory.
In the end I had to change the case to use exception.class.name rather
than exception, and list string constants instead of the actual class
literals. Doing that made it work.
I’m completely baffled about why this may be, but I’m a Ruby newbie as
well as a Rails newcomer.–Jim Elliott
but I don’t know what ‘string constants’ instead of the actual class
literals means to me in this context.
I know something is wrong, I don’t have the skill sets to make it right.
I’m looking for a big hit with a clue stick.
Thanks
Craig
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Craig W. wrote:
I have to laugh at this because I ‘added’ an extra end to your code (p
464 - Third printed version Sept 2005)
Which code? The ‘rescue_exception_in_public’ method? That seems
alright: one end for the def, and one for the case.
I hate it when I feel stupid: what am I missing?
Dave
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 21:53 -0600, Dave T. wrote:
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Craig W. wrote:
I have to laugh at this because I ‘added’ an extra end to your code (p
464 - Third printed version Sept 2005)
Which code? The ‘rescue_exception_in_public’ method? That seems
alright: one end for the def, and one for the case.
I hate it when I feel stupid: what am I missing?
No - you’re not stupid - I am stupid.
I inserted an extra ‘end’ - you told me you thought I was missing an
‘end’, I had one too many…that’s why I had to laugh, you thought I was
one brick short of a full load, I had one too many bricks.
I thought I would need 3 ‘end’ lines, 1 for the ‘def’, 1 for the ‘case’
command and 1 for the ‘when/else’
My fault - thanks
If I could get the problem with ‘unitialized constant UnknownAction’
problem, I would go to sleep very happy tonight.
Thanks
Craig
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 22:55 +0100, Wes G. wrote:
do the same
Thanks,
Wes G.
If I could get the problem with ‘unitialized constant UnknownAction’
problem, I would go to sleep very happy tonight.
will do Wes - seeing as how I took this directly out of the book (AWDWR)
I sort of expected it to perform or at least have a comprehensible
clarification on the errata page for the book.
Craig
Craig W. wrote:
Craig,
I am having the same problem trying to start up WEBrick when I put
::Action_Controller::Base.enable_upload_progress
into my environment.rb file.
If you figure out what this is, can you let me know? Of course, I will
do the same
Thanks,
Wes G.
If I could get the problem with ‘unitialized constant UnknownAction’
problem, I would go to sleep very happy tonight.
Thanks
Craig
On Mar 7, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Craig W. wrote:
If I could get the problem with ‘unitialized constant UnknownAction’
problem, I would go to sleep very happy tonight.
will do Wes - seeing as how I took this directly out of the book
(AWDWR)
I sort of expected it to perform or at least have a comprehensible
clarification on the errata page for the book.
Strange: what happens if you start script/console and type
dave[tmp/rails 19:33:53] script/console
Loading development environment.
ActionController::UnknownAction
=> ActionController::UnknownAction
I see that constant here.
Dave
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:34 -0600, Dave T. wrote:
Strange: what happens if you start script/console and type
dave[tmp/rails 19:33:53] script/console
Loading development environment.
ActionController::UnknownAction
=> ActionController::UnknownAction
I see that constant here.
I see the same thing ;-(
this is what I did…(pasting from earlier email)
*** in application.rb ***
def rescue_action_in_public(exception)
case exception
when ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound,
ActionController::UnknownAction
and copied the file…app/models/system_notifier.rb changing the first
line ‘pathname’ to the actual path to the base of my ruby application
and then finally copied the file and folder for system_notifier…into
app/views/system_notifier/exception_notification
I can get started but when it comes time to trap an error, I get the
following logged (this is in production/Apache-fcgi)
NameError (uninitialized constant UnknownAction):
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:195:in
const_missing' /app/controllers/application.rb:12:inrescue_action_in_public’
…etc.
I don’t have the tools to know why this is happening
Craig
yeah - I meant to say that… 
It actually was the same thread. I am rather surprised that there aren’t
more people wondering about it - I am clearly not the only person to run
into this problem (per the errata page). Perhaps many people aren’t
motivated to trap their errors.
Craig
PS - thanks Kent…
Dave,
As I explained in another thread, when you tried to reference any
constant from the ActionController scope, Ruby tries to resolve this
constant in ActionWebService::Container::ActionController module
scope. This module is included by AWS during bootstrap process and
happens to bear the same name. I didn’t dig this problem much, but I
think it’s related to the black magic of const_missing that Rails
uses.
Kent.
On 3/7/06, Dave T. [email protected] wrote:
clarification on the errata page for the book.
Dave
Rails mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
–
Kent
On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Kent S. wrote:
As I explained in another thread, when you tried to reference any
constant from the ActionController scope, Ruby tries to resolve this
constant in ActionWebService::Container::ActionController module
scope. This module is included by AWS during bootstrap process and
happens to bear the same name. I didn’t dig this problem much, but I
think it’s related to the black magic of const_missing that Rails
Interesting, this must have changed since 0.14.
Cool, so we’ll rack this one up to a Rails bug then.
Thanks
Dave
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 23:20 -0600, Dave T. wrote:
Cool, so we’ll rack this one up to a Rails bug then.
I would be ever so grateful if you can provide an errata way around it -
when you get time.
Thanks
Craig