On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:49 AM, shusseina wrote:
>
> I'm a Rails newbie (and a Ruby newbie for that matter). I am working
> my way through the book href="http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Rails-2-
> Patrick-Lenz/dp/0980455200/ref=sr_1_1?
> ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247152951&sr=8-1">"Simply Rails 2"</a>.
>
> I have generated the model and controller parts of the sample app, at
> which point the author instructs the reader to start the web server
> and view the app with their browser.
>
> Viewing http://localhost:3000/stories in my browser should display the
> file app/views/stories/index.html.erb, but instead displays the
> following error:
>
> Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html
> 500 Internal Server Error
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this error?
>
>
> Please see the partial output from the server below:
>
> => Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
> => Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
> => Call with -d to detach
> => Ctrl-C to shutdown server
> ** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
> ** Starting Rails with development environment...
>
>
> *******************************************************************
> * config.breakpoint_server has been deprecated and has no
> effect. *
>
> *******************************************************************
>
> ** Rails loaded.
> ** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
> ** Signals ready. TERM => stop. USR2 => restart. INT => stop (no
> restart).
> ** Rails signals registered. HUP => reload (without restart). It
> might not work well.
> ** Mongrel 1.1.4 available at 0.0.0.0:3000
> ** Use CTRL-C to stop.
> /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Fri Jul 10 01:07:17 +1000 2009
> Status: 500 Internal Server Error
> A secret is required to generate an integrity hash for cookie
> session data. Use config.action_controller.session = { :session_key =>
> "_myapp_session", :secret => "some secret phrase of at least 30
> characters" } in config/environment.rb
Did you do what it asks here?
If that doesn't help, see this for more info maybe...
http://billkirtley.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/failsafe-handling-with-rails/
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/
> session/cookie_store.rb:91:in `ensure_secret_secure'
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/
> session/cookie_store.rb:60:in `initialize'
> ...
>
> >
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