I’m trying to run the chapter two demo_app from the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book on Heroku and it is not working. gws-demp-app.heroku.com gives the default Rails page, but gws-demo-app.heroku.com/users gives a web page that says “We’re sorry, but something went wrong.” On my desktop it works fine. I’m using the tools from RailsInstaller.org.
I had problems with heroku rake db:migrate at the end of the chapter not finding the activerecord-postgresql-adapter so I did install gem pg, bundle install, and updated the Gemfile and repositories. Everything is on github at https://github.com/gwshaw/demo_app.
What looks like the same problem appears at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7619551/heroku-rake-dbmigrate-success-but-not-showing-in-app
I tried heroku restart recommended there, but that causes: Restarting processes… C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:6
44:in `initialize’: getaddrinfo: No such host is known. (SocketError)
I tried what is claimed to work, precompiling assets with bundle exec rake assets:precompile, but that generates an error: C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/ruby.exe C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/rake as
sets:precompile:all RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets
rake aborted!
TypeError: Object doesn’t support this property or method
(in C:/Sites/rails_projects/demo_app/app/assets/javascripts/application.js)
I’m new to ruby and rails so I’m at a loss. Any ideas?
Solved below.
The problem with
bundle exec rake assets:precompilewas the key and is solved here RoR Precompiling Assets fail while rake assets:precompile – on basically empty application.jsOddly, Heroku wouldn’t automatically precompile the assets on a
git push herokuand thus would not find them. I don’t think this little demo_app even uses assets, so that may be why it didn’t precompile, but it still could not findapplicaiton.cssand failed. Once I setconfig.log_level = :debugin production.rb, I could see the problem in the logs. With the precompile working due to the above fix, everything worked.