Question

I am facing this runtime error after deploying mysite to VPS. note that in my local machine every thing is working fine.

when I try to access any view via controller route lets say PostsController#index

I got this error

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 3ms
ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template posts/index, application/index with {:handlers=>[:builder, :erb], :formats=>[:html], :locale=>[:en]}. Searched in:
"/home//dev..com/releases/20120413023845/app/views"
):
app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:7:in `index'

I am thinking that haml is the cause of the problem but I am not sure yet.

I added haml gems and bundled my app

  gem 'haml'
  gem 'haml-rails'

update:

when I changed index.html.haml to index.html.erb and commented the template content it works but it ignored the application.html.haml layout without errors.

i noticed that the application didnot compile my hamls when cap command run

RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets assets:precompile

Compiled application.js  (1ms)  (pid 15420)
Compiled application.css  (1ms)  (pid 15420)
Compiled application.js  (1ms)  (pid 15420)
Compiled application.css  (1ms)  (pid 15420) 

does this mean I have problem with haml converter that is managed by the asset pipeline? how can I tell rails to handle haml in the production environment.

this is my production gems version

Using rake (0.9.2.2) 
Using i18n (0.6.0) 
Using multi_json (1.2.0) 
Using activesupport (3.2.3) 
Using builder (3.0.0) 
Using activemodel (3.2.3) 
Using erubis (2.7.0) 
Using journey (1.0.3) 
Using rack (1.4.1) 
Using rack-cache (1.2) 
Using rack-test (0.6.1) 
Using hike (1.2.1) 
Using tilt (1.3.3) 
Using sprockets (2.1.2) 
Using actionpack (3.2.3) 
Using mime-types (1.18) 
Using polyglot (0.3.3) 
Using treetop (1.4.10) 
Using mail (2.4.4) 
Using actionmailer (3.2.3) 
Using arel (3.0.2) 
Using tzinfo (0.3.33) 
Using activerecord (3.2.3) 
Using activeresource (3.2.3) 
Using highline (1.6.11) 
Using net-ssh (2.3.0) 
Using net-scp (1.0.4) 
Using net-sftp (2.0.5) 
Using net-ssh-gateway (1.1.0) 
Using capistrano (2.11.2) 
Using chunky_png (1.2.5) 
Using coffee-script-source (1.3.1) 
Using execjs (1.3.0) 
Using coffee-script (2.2.0) 
Using rack-ssl (1.3.2) 
Using json (1.6.6) 
Using rdoc (3.12) 
Using thor (0.14.6) 
Using railties (3.2.3) 
Using coffee-rails (3.2.2) 
Using fssm (0.2.9) 
Using sass (3.1.15) 
Using compass (0.12.1) 
Using compass-rails (1.0.1) 
Using haml (3.1.4) 
Using haml-rails (0.3.4) 
Using hpricot (0.8.6) 
Using mysql2 (0.3.11) 
Using bundler (1.1.3) 
Using rails (3.2.3) 
Using sexp_processor (3.1.0) 
Using ruby_parser (2.3.1) 
Using sass-rails (3.2.5) 
Using uglifier (1.2.4) 

Answer 1

May be your

gem 'haml'

is not in production group (or, is not outside the development group)