What method of sending mail are you using? Check your logs while you sen the mail.
Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Learn rails: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ On 06/02/2009, at 9:24 PM, Chris Hanks <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > > Hello - > > I'm kind of new to this whole web development thing - I have a VPS and > I've installed ubuntu 8.04 and postfix on it, and now I'm deploying > simple rails apps to get the hang of the whole process. > > So I put together a small forum application, based on the > restful_authentication plugin. I've changed user_mailer.rb to reflect > the signup/activation emails that I want to send, but I haven't > modified > restful_authentication beyond that - it's very basic and vanilla. > > So I managed to use mod_rails to get my little app up and running - I > can see the empty forum and everything - but when I go to sign up as a > new user, I submit my information and the browser hangs for a short > while. Finally, it gives me the Rails 500 "We're sorry, but something > went wrong" screen. > > The final entry in production.log is: > > --- > > Processing UsersController#create (for 62.90.14.161 at 2009-02-06 > 04:35:22) [POST] > Parameters: {"user"=>{"password_confirmation"=>"(my password)", > "password"=>"(my password)", "login"=>"chris", "email"=>"(my email > address)"}, "commit"=>"Sign up", > "authenticity_token"=>"pqOfNV4NB0xZG56nISFIf6jHM7f7KKUoG8FJhG1wvyM="} > Sent mail to (my email address) > > Timeout::Error (execution expired): > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `new' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:206:in `old_open' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:206:in `old_open' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:393:in `do_start' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:in `start' > actionmailer (2.3.0) lib/action_mailer/base.rb:679:in > `perform_delivery_smtp' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
