Question

I have rails on a CENTOS 6.x VirtualBox guest with a Win7 host. I made a demo app and I can see the Welcome “You’re riding Ruby on Rails!” default page from the host browser. However, when I do

demo> rails generate controller Say hello goodbye

I get “something went wrong” when I navigate to …/Say/hello

I also notice that I get a “something went wrong” message inside the element of the “About your application’s environment” page linked off the Welcome index.

I have:

• turned off selinux
• edited the text of the welcome screen and viewed the difference (from host browser) to verify I’m working in the right place
• come here to look for help

Answer 1

The message “something went wrong” is given in production mode, in development you should see the actual error and backtrace. Make sure to specify the environment in your Apache config with

RailsEnv 'development'