I have ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
configured with the mail server.Because of database_mailer, I think, I had to disable the config.frameworks like so: config.frameworks -= [] Could this be why comments isn't sending notifications, and if so, is there some fix or work-around I can use to get both of these crucial extension to play nice? ~ Alexis ================= On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Jim Gay wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Alexis Masters <[email protected] > > wrote: >> Great. I'm glad this problem resulted in helping others. I have >> another quick question: >> In Settings, under the Comments section, I have Notifications all set >> to true but the site does not send any notifications at all, not even >> to the moderator when a new comment is posted. Did I do something >> wrong or overlook something I need to do to make this happen? > > Have you setup action_mailer? > By default, an instance of Radiant has this set in the config/ > environment.rb > > config.frameworks -= [:action_mailer] > > You'd need to remove that line and configure action mailer to use your > mail server. > >> >> >> On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Jim Gay wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Alexis Masters >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Jim, >>>> Thanks for your note. I actually did send a more detailed email to >>>> the >>>> list after your note yesterday morning, but I think it got held >>>> up in >>>> the moderator's queue. >>>> >>>> Thanks to heroic efforts of the wonderful support staff at >>>> RailsPlayground, we finally got my new VPS configured with all the >>>> most crucial extensions at 2am this morning. The problems were not >>>> caused by the VPS or by missing gems. As I suspected, there were >>>> different issues with each extension, some of which went unnoticed >>>> right away and caused extensions installed farther down the line to >>>> not install correctly or not install at all. >>>> >>>> The main culprit was the comments extension, which is the one >>>> responsible for the "nil object" message referenced below. If I had >>>> not been so relatively new to Radiant and so worn out I might have >>>> realized how to fix this before 1:30 in the morning :-) >>>> >>>> What I had to do was modify by hand the two fields in the pages >>>> table >>>> that the comments extension adds from Null to Zero Fill. Then the >>>> "nil >>>> object" message went away and the pages loaded without a glitch. >>>> >>>> I hope this manual fix does not create further problems down the >>>> road. >>>> If anyone has any warnings for me, I'm all ears. >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if the comments extension was developed and tested >>>> using >>>> MySQL 5.1, which is what is on my VPS. Maybe earlier versions of >>>> MySQL >>>> were not so picky... >>>> ~ Alexis >>>> ================= >>> >>> Thanks for the details. >>> I'm currently maintaining the Comments extension. >>> >>> I took a quick look at the migrations and it seems that the first >>> one >>> creates columns on the pages table and then tries to update them >>> without first reloading the table information, and it also never >>> sets >>> a default value for the enable_comments field. >>> >>> I believe I've corrected this for others, but thanks for reporting >>> the problem. >>> http://github.com/artofmission/radiant-comments/commit/71a32c46039658cee6ea54d7ef85bb4cccca9559 >>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Jim Gay wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Alexis Masters wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> I have numerous successful Radiant sites running now and I love >>>>>> the >>>>>> CMS, though I have always has some difficulty getting the >>>>>> extensions >>>>>> installed. I have been working in a shared environment with >>>>>> earlier >>>>>> Radiant sites, but since I hoped to use Multi-Site and host a >>>>>> number >>>>>> of Radiant clients in this instance, I decided to move to a VPS >>>>>> account. I have had the worst trouble installing the necessary >>>>>> extensions. Almost none installed correctly though I have gone >>>>>> through >>>>>> each extension's README and installed every required gem. Is this >>>>>> because something is missing from the configuration that needs to >>>>>> be >>>>>> there for extensions to install properly? I am on a VPS account >>>>>> running passenger. We have installed Radiant 0.8.1 from the >>>>>> current >>>>>> gem. We have tried both Ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2009.10 and >>>>>> REE1.8.6-20090201 but the problem persists. >>>>>> >>>>>> Here is the message I get when trying to install with the >>>>>> standard >>>>>> script install method: >>>>>> >>>>>> rake aborted! >>>>>> You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! >>>>>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.to_sym >>>>> >>>>> We'll need more than that. Did you run the rake task with -- >>>>> trace ? >>>>> That will give you more detail about where the error occurs. >>>>> And without knowing what extensions you have, there's no way >>>>> anyone >>>>> can help. >>>>> >>>>> Many extensions seem to be managed with a tag for a particular >>>>> version of radiant, and the master branch chases the Radiant >>>>> master. >>>>> So for example you may have one extension installed which is >>>>> compatible with edge, but you may need to do "git checkout >>>>> v0.8.1" (or whatever the tag name is for a particular extension) >>>>> >>>>> Reply back with more informative errors and I'm sure you can get >>>>> the >>>>> help you need. >>>>> >>>>> Jim Gay >>>>> http://www.saturnflyer.com >>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Radiant mailing list >>> Post: [email protected] >>> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >>> List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant >>> Radiant: http://radiantcms.org >>> Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Radiant mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >> List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant >> Radiant: http://radiantcms.org >> Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org >> > > > > -- > Jim Gay > Saturn Flyer LLC > [email protected] > http://www.saturnflyer.com > 571-403-0338 > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > Radiant: http://radiantcms.org > Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant Radiant: http://radiantcms.org Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org
