I’ve deployed my rails application on a staging/production machine running Apache and Phusion Passenger but cannot get the Paperclip gem to load correctly (or at least to get the piece of the application working that uses it). Other gems seem to load fine and when I set config.cache_classes to false in the RAILS_ROOT/config/environments/staging.rb the rest of the application works fine. If it is set to true I get the following Passenger message in the browser (and apache error log) and cannot use the application at all:
Error message:
undefined method `validates_attachment_presence' for #<Class:0xb618e938>
Exception class:
NoMethodError
I’ve googled around for quite some time but cannot find a solution for this issue I am having. I hope I am not overlooking something obvious…
UPDATE 21/8: On the same box running the rails app with sudo script/server -b 17x.7x.16x.3x -e staging works fine. Could this be a permission problem and Passenger not being able to find the installed Paperclip Gem?
Hope you can give me some pointers, let me know if you need more info! Thanks Mark
Some information on my environment:
$ rails -v
Rails 2.3.5
RAILS_ROOT/config/environment.rb has this set:
config.gem "paperclip", :version => "~> 2.3"
Gems environment:
$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.8
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- x86-linux
- GEM PATHS:
- /var/lib/gems/1.8
- /home/mark/.gem/ruby/1.8
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => true
- :benchmark => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Gems list on the server:
$ gem list
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (3.0.9, 2.3.5)
actionpack (3.0.9, 2.3.5)
activemodel (3.0.9)
activerecord (3.0.9, 2.3.5)
activeresource (3.0.9, 2.3.5)
activesupport (3.0.9, 2.3.5)
arel (2.1.3, 2.0.10)
builder (3.0.0, 2.1.2)
capistrano (2.6.0)
cocaine (0.1.0)
daemon_controller (0.2.6)
erubis (2.6.6)
fastthread (1.0.7)
highline (1.6.2)
i18n (0.4.2)
mail (2.2.19)
mime-types (1.16)
mysql (2.8.1)
net-scp (1.0.4)
net-sftp (2.0.5)
net-ssh (2.1.4)
net-ssh-gateway (1.1.0)
paperclip (2.3.12)
passenger (3.0.7)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.2.3, 1.1.0, 1.0.1)
rack-mount (0.6.14)
rack-test (0.5.7)
rails (2.3.5)
rake (0.9.2, 0.8.7)
treetop (1.4.9)
tzinfo (0.3.29)
will_paginate (2.3.15)
Paperclip gem is installed here:
$ sudo find / -name 'paperclip'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/doc/paperclip-2.3.12/rdoc/files/lib/paperclip
/var/lib/gems/1.8/doc/paperclip-2.3.12/rdoc/files/lib/generators/paperclip
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/paperclip-2.3.12/lib/paperclip
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/paperclip-2.3.12/lib/generators/paperclip
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/paperclip-2.3.12/generators/paperclip
Apache virtualhost config:
$ more /etc/apache2/sites-available/staging.mydomain.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName staging.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /u/apps/mydomain.com/current/public
RailsEnv staging
</VirtualHost>
Some additional stack trace from the passenger page (btw: tried removing the will_paginate plugin, but the result is exactly the same; it throws an error at active_record/base.rb):
Backtrace:
# File Line Location
0 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/base.rb 1959 in `method_missing_without_paginate'
1 /u/apps/mydomain.com/releases/20110705192718/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb 170 in `method_missing'
2 /u/apps/mydomain.com/releases/20110705192718/app/models/image.rb 5
3 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb 31 in `gem_original_require'
4 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb 31 in `require'
5 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb 158 in `require'
6 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb 265 in `require_or_load'
7 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb 224 in `depend_on'
8 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb 136 in `require_dependency'
9 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb 414 in `load_application_classes'
10 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb 413 in `each'
Code for the image class:
class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
validate_attachment_presence :photo
validates_uniqueness_of :photo_file_name, :scope => :user_id
has_attached_file :photo, :url => "/assets/:user/app/:class/:style_:basename.:
extension",
:path => "#{APP_PATH}/:user/app/:class/:style_:basename.:extension",
:styles => {
:thumb=> "50x50#",
:large => "400x" }
end
config/environment.rb
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file
# Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present
RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.5' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
# Bootstrap the Rails environment, frameworks, and default configuration
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot')
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
config.time_zone = 'UTC'
config.active_record.observers = :user_observer #, :website_observer
config.gem "paperclip", :version => "~> 2.3"
end
SITE_NAME = 'Mydomain.com'
CMS_PREFIX = 'joomla'
config/environments.rb/staging.rb
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/environment.rb
# The staging environment is meant for finished, apps and final acceptance testing.
# Code is not reloaded between requests
config.cache_classes = true
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
config.action_view.cache_template_loading = true
ActionController::Base.asset_host = "staging.mydomain.com"
DOCUMENT_ROOT = "/var/www"
APP_PATH = "/u/apps"
DB_PREFIX = "a001"
DB_USER = "joomla"
DB_PWD = "*****"
GIT_URL = "git@github.com:****/mydomain.git"
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => "587",
:domain => "gmail.com",
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => "****@gmail.com",
:password => "****"
}
OK, I’ve solved this by adding
to the image.rb class.
I am going with this workaround for now.