Rails doesn't log template errors in development mode - ruby-on-rails

My Rails 3.2.9-app does not show any specific error information to me on errors in templates! It doesn't matter if I use haml or erb, I am always getting
"We're sorry, but something went wrong"
In fact, Webrick is in development mode and if there are errors in my models or controllers, I get the full ordinary error screen.
Examples
Example error in my helper-template ("#resource" does not exist, must be "resource"):
-> All I get is this lousy "We are sorry, but something went wrong"
<% #resource.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
Example error in one of my controllers:
resposnd_to do |format|
-> undefined method `resposnd_to' for ...

I finally solved this problem!! All in all, I searched for more than 1 year, but now, i finally got the solution:
The problem is to use umlauts or blank spaces in the path of the rails project. If you move your rails project to a path without umlauts or blanks, the error message should be shown properly :-)!
Tested on ubuntu-machine, maybe this is important for this bug. This bug appears in rails 3.2.9, 3.2.13 and 3.2.14 definitely.
(consider_all_requests_local is activated of course, this never was the reason)

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How can I get Rails to give me more details on an error it's not logging?

This has been stumping me: Rails is throwing this error, after it's finished rendering my views, but before it gets back to the browser:
ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `start_with?' for #<Proc:0x00005651bfe017f0>)
And... that's it. There's no stack trace. I get shown the standard 500 "We're sorry, but something went wrong" page, despite having config.consider_all_requests_local = true set. There are no further details either in the terminal or in log/development.log.
I can't find any Procs that it might be complaining about, nor can I find any calls to start_with? that might be the cause; I've gone back through Git history and isolated the issue to one commit (this one, if you want to take a look in detail), but nothing within that commit jumps out as being obvious.
Calling a render layout: false does work, as does simplifying my layouts/application.js down to just a <%= yield %>, which makes me think it might be something in there, however - I made no changes to it or any views at all in the commit in which the issue appeared.
What I'd really like to know is how I can get Rails to give me the stack trace for this error, so I can figure out where it's coming from. If you have any ideas where the bug itself might be, those are more than welcome too.
Drop this in an initializer (proc.rb):
class Proc
def start_with?(*args)
puts caller
end
end

Rails 3 ActionView::Template::Error: ActionView::Template::Error

I am upgrading my application from Rails 2.3.14 to Rails 3.0.1
I always get this error if there is any error in the view
Development mode eh? Here is the error - #<ActionView::Template::Error: ActionView::Template::Error>
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:158:in `render_500'
This is the code written for render_500 in application_controller.rb
def render_500(error)
if Rails.env.production?
render :file => Rails.root.join('public','access_denied.html'), :status => 500
else
raise Exception, I18n.t('str_error')+" - #{error.inspect}"
end
end
I am debugging the code now by writing puts statements.
Please help me with a solution. Thanks in advance.
Well, the application is behaving properly. The Development mode eh? Here is the error is the string inside I18n.t('str_error'). You are just raising an exception, and rendering nothing, just this string, so there is no problem.
Template error can be many things, but the one more common is assets that are not precompiled and stuff. Do a little research on this, maybe it is the problem, but keep in mind that the code provided is working as expected.

Rails WikiCreole Error

I have an inherited project using the creole gem (0.5.0).
In my view this line seems to break but I can't find out anything about it:
<%= WikiCreole.creole_parse(#a.content) %>
The error message is NameError in Knowledgebase_article#view uninitialized constant ActionView::Base::CompiledTemplates::WikiCreole. If this line is removed then the page will render fine.
The problem is I can't seem to find out much about the error anywhere so I was hoping that someone on SO would know where to start.
Please try <%= Creole.creolize(#a.content)%>
Thanks
Just found the answer as to why my specific setup wasn't working, first of all I hadn't installed the WikiCreole gem, so:
gem install WikiCreole
Then, I was missing the require statement from my model:
require 'wiki_creole'

NoMethodError undefined method '-#' NoMethodError in Controller Ruby on Rails

Context:
I pulled the most recent code from the repository and tried to make sure that the changes I was about to push up were going to work with that version of the code. This is a Ruby on Rails application. Also worth noting is the fact that when running the main application that I pulled from on the web, this error does not show up. But if I run my branch or the main branch cloned onto my environment, the error always shows up for every url I try. So it is on my end.
Problem:
As soon as I go to localhost:3000, I get the following error:
NoMethodError in HomeController#index
undefined method `-#' for #<ActionDispatch::Response:0x64fd460>
What I've Tried:
I have asked my question on the #rubyonrails IRC channel and nobody was able to determine what was going on through the Full Trace (I haven't posted it here because I wasn't sure what was the best way to do that on here; it didn't look very good in the code block or block quote). I have looked at my HomeController's index method, which is defined as such:
def index
#groups = #current_user.groups
#things = Thing.where(:group_id => #groups.map{|e|e.id})
end
I have also Googled around and haven't found what I need to fix the problem.
What I've Learned So Far:
-# is an operator. Some people may receive a similar error in assuming that Ruby has the shortcut to
variable = variable + 1
that a lot of other languages have:
variable++
Here is an example of that case: Undefined method `+#' for false:FalseClass (NoMethodError) ruby
Question:
Does anyone have any further suggestions on how to find the issue here? Also, if I could easily put the Full Trace on here, formatted in an aesthetically pleasing manner, would someone tell me how? I'm at a loss with this one :(
Update (2/8/2013):
It seems that the issue does not necessarily reside in the HomeController nor home/index.html.erb View. I have attempted to access ANY url with a valid action and the same error occurs with "NoMethodError in..." changing to the corresponding [...]Controller#index.
Update (2/9/2013):
Since this error happens no matter what url I try to navigate to, I decided to look in the routes.rb file in the config folder. I ran my server through rubymine instead of the command line this time, which made it a little easier to read for me. I started looking through all the spit out and I noticed an interested line that consisted of:
["private-key looking thing"] [127.0.0.1] Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-02-09 18:20:52 -0700
It seems like there is a syntactical error in routes.rb (that's my best guess at this point). This does not explain why this only is an issue on my local environment with the same code sets, but what else do I have to go off of?
Does anyone have any suggested things to be on the look out for while I sift through this file? Not really sure what to be looking for as far as errors are concerned. Rubymines inspection stuff converted all my double quotes to single quotes and doesn't really have anything else to complain about.
Thanks in advance,
Jake Smith
I am guessing it might as well be an syntactical error in the corresponding view page Home/index.html.haml .. I am suspecting there is unintended '-' in front of variable call. I tried to simulate a similar scenario in my rails platform and see following page on browser
undefined method `-#' for false:FalseClass
Correct lines of code
%h1 All Movies
= "filtervalue=#{#isFilterOld}"
= "Sortvalue=#{#isSortOld}"
Edited to simulate the error (observe the - in front of isFilterOld variable)
%h1 All Movies
= "filtervalue=#{-#isFilterOld}"
= "Sortvalue=#{#isSortOld}"
I have fixed the issue!
What fixed it:
Go to the directory where your gems are (for me that was C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby1.9.3\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1)
Delete all gems except for bundler
Make sure you delete the gems from the /cache/, /gems/, and /specifications/ folders (I just deleted them from the /gems/ folder at first and bundle install indicated that it could still find the gems)
Run bundle install
Further Inquiry:
Does anybody have any idea why this worked? I don't know if at this point I can narrow down which gem was causing the issue because the app is working now (I can visit all the urls with corresponding views). If the issue comes up again, I will delete gems one by one to nail down which one was at least causing the issue for me. But if anyone has any insight on this, a more detailed answer would be greatly appreciated by many more people than just me, I think. Thanks to all who helped thus far!

Rails full error page not showing for view errors

I have a view named new.html.erb with the following code:
<%= some_non_existent_thing.imaginary_method %>
Now, I only see one simple 500 error page, like that:
500 Internal Server Error
If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong.
Shouldn't I see a pretty formatted page with some information about the exception?
I'm not sure I miss something here, but I believe rails used to show the full error page in development environment when there is something wrong in the view.
Are you sure that you are running the development environment? Check that RAILS_ENV=development or that you are running rails server -e development.
Then check your development.rb file, you should have the following line in it
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
If you happen to have an exception inside an exception, Rails has a middleware that catches it and returns a FAILSAFE_RESPONSE with the following copy:
500 Internal Server Error
If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong.
A nice way to troubleshoot this is to compare your custom error code with the sample code provided in the Rails 4.2.0 guides.
I'm pointing to that particular version because that whole section was removed in the Rails 5.0.0 guides.
Ideally, you should keep your error views, layout, and controller as free of logic as possible, to avoid running into this issue.
Firstly, as Anton mentions in the answer below, confirm that your config/environments/development.rb has:
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
and that you are running the server in development mode.
I had ensured the above and still observed the error.
This happened in my case, because my logger had some errors. I was using a custom log formatter, which used the String#% method to format the log. % seems to be very buggy and leads to all these weird errors. I figured this one out by adding a debugger line to the controller method and stepping through into the implicit render function call. It hit the bug and reported it as a malformed format string error.
This was the log formatter I was using before, which caused the bugs [I had added it to an initializer file]:
class Logger::SimpleFormatter
def call(severity, time, progname, msg)
"%-7s #{msg}\n" % severity
end
end
These modifications fixed the bug:
class Logger::SimpleFormatter
def call(severity, time, progname, msg)
severity_prefix = "[#{severity}]".ljust(7)
"#{severity_prefix} #{msg}\n"
end
end
This happens if the code is not compilable, for example if you have an if statement missing an end.

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