Question

I’m getting a 500 error when I go to /users/sign_in (or any other devise page).

This is all the log says:

Started GET "/users/sign_in" for 67.161.236.149 at Mon Jun 13 02:51:47 +0000 2011
  Processing by Devise::SessionsController#new as HTML
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 10ms

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Could not find table 'users'):




Started GET "/users/sign_out" for 67.161.236.149 at Mon Jun 13 10:40:25 +0000 2011
  Processing by Devise::SessionsController#destroy as HTML
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 135ms

NameError (undefined local variable or method `root_path' for #<Devise::SessionsController:0x605f360>):

What is going wrong?

Answer 1

This looks suspicious:

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Could not find table 'users'):

Have you run db:migrate since creating your User model?

Also,

NameError (undefined local variable or method `root_path' for #<Devise::SessionsController:0x605f360>)

suggests that you don’t have a root path configured. This is something in routes.rb that matches requests to http://www.yourdomain.com/. You could use something like

root :to => "pages#home"

which would direct any request to http://www.yourdomain.com/ to the home action of the pages controller.