On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Ulysse Carion <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, > > I recently spent an interesting hour trying to figure out why a particular > render wasn't working. I was getting the error message: > > syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting '=' > > The line that was "failing" (that is, the very first line in the stack > trace produced) looked like this: > > <%= render student %> > > The error, of course, wasn't there; it was in the partial that "student" > corresponded to (the layout "/users/_user.html.erb"). Once I realized this, > it took all of three seconds to find a typo I had made. > > I think this is a bit of a usability issue -- is there any way I could > configure (or patch) Rails to get the stacktrace to show me the partial > that was failing, rather than the penultimate (and perfectly fine) layout? > > I hope I'm explaining this issue coherently. > > Thanks, > > Ulysse > > You are. I don't disagree with your sentiment here. Even with the better_errors gem this isn't shown. I end up tailing the log files which does show the actual error messages. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHUC_t9egP-zqAvVtoRv2-F2PrDGbwgzz%3DMoAa1KcfX4ciygyw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
