Question

I’m new to Ruby on Rails, so please pardon my ignorance. My issue is that I cannot access the Rails project from the browser. I assume it has something to do with the Rails config, but I am having no luck so far.

State of the Project

• I have existing logic (controllers, models, migrations, …).
• If I leave index.html in place, I see the Rails welcome page because it is apparently rendered before Rails tries to parse the URL.
• If I disable index.html, I get the ‘Something went wrong’ message which is generated by Rails.
• If I have the httpd.conf document root set to ‘my.domain.com/public’ I get the Rails error, but if I have it set to ‘my.domain.com/’, I get an error served up by Apache instead. (So that seems to be correctly configured.)
• The error logs show this error: File does not exist: /var/www/html/my.domain.com/zombies when I hit the URL.

My Environment

• Rails 3.2.6
• Ruby 1.9.3
• Apache 2.2.3
• CentOS

If it matters, I’m simply following the tutorial at Rails for Zombies 2.

Thanks in advance!

Reference

zombies_controller.rb

class ZombiesController < ApplicationController
  # GET /zombies
  # GET /zombies.json
  def index
    @zombies = Zombie.all

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @zombies }
    end
  end

  # GET /zombies/1
  # GET /zombies/1.json
  def show
    @zombie = Zombie.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # show.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @zombie }
    end
  end

  # GET /zombies/new
  # GET /zombies/new.json
  def new
    @zombie = Zombie.new

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # new.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @zombie }
    end
  end

  # GET /zombies/1/edit
  def edit
    @zombie = Zombie.find(params[:id])
  end

  # POST /zombies
  # POST /zombies.json
  def create
    @zombie = Zombie.new(params[:zombie])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @zombie.save
        format.html { redirect_to @zombie, notice: 'Zombie was successfully created.' }
        format.json { render json: @zombie, status: :created, location: @zombie }
      else
        format.html { render action: "new" }
        format.json { render json: @zombie.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  # PUT /zombies/1
  # PUT /zombies/1.json
  def update
    @zombie = Zombie.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @zombie.update_attributes(params[:zombie])
        format.html { redirect_to @zombie, notice: 'Zombie was successfully updated.' }
        format.json { head :no_content }
      else
        format.html { render action: "edit" }
        format.json { render json: @zombie.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  # DELETE /zombies/1
  # DELETE /zombies/1.json
  def destroy
    @zombie = Zombie.find(params[:id])
    @zombie.destroy

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to zombies_url }
      format.json { head :no_content }
    end
  end
end

Answer 1

Running rake assets:precompile seems to have fixed my issue. Thanks all.