From adam at prettystudio.co.uk  Tue Oct  3 11:21:49 2006
From: adam at prettystudio.co.uk (Adam)
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:21:49 +0100
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
Message-ID: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>

Hi. My 1st post!

Been trying to get Ruby & Rails working on a windows machine for most of 
yesterday. Gave up after not being able to get IIS to bring up a Rails 
page on localhost.

So InstantRails seemed like the way forward. Got it installed ok, but I 
cant get it to serve Rails pages, specifically the cookbook app .. have 
gone through the instructions, and put the index.html from the cookbook 
app folder into the www folder. It says:

The requested URL /recipe/list was not found on this server.

(after loading http://www.railscookbook.com which redirects to 
http://www.railscookbook.com/recipe/list)

If i try http://www.railscookbook.com:3001 it just loads forever.

This is all on Firefox.

Thanks in advance
Adam


From curt.hibbs at gmail.com  Tue Oct  3 14:14:46 2006
From: curt.hibbs at gmail.com (Curt Hibbs)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:14:46 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
In-Reply-To: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
References: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
Message-ID: <31d15f490610031114h793fef04jc2ad15dd02807831@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/3/06, Adam <adam at prettystudio.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi. My 1st post!
>
> Been trying to get Ruby & Rails working on a windows machine for most of
> yesterday. Gave up after not being able to get IIS to bring up a Rails
> page on localhost.
>
> So InstantRails seemed like the way forward. Got it installed ok, but I
> cant get it to serve Rails pages, specifically the cookbook app .. have
> gone through the instructions, and put the index.html from the cookbook
> app folder into the www folder. It says:
>
> The requested URL /recipe/list was not found on this server.
>
> (after loading http://www.railscookbook.com which redirects to
> http://www.railscookbook.com/recipe/list)
>
> If i try http://www.railscookbook.com:3001 it just loads forever.
>
> This is all on Firefox.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Adam
>

Are you using the newly released Instant Rails 1.4 preview1? If not, go
download and install it.

Next, start the cookbook app by:

   - Select "Rails Applications > Manage Rails Applications..."
   - Check the checkbox next to the cookbook app
   - Press the "Start with Mongrel" button.

You should be able to browse to:

    http://localhost:3001/

Assuming that the above worked, the apache config file already has a virtual
host directive that will serve up the cookbook using the named host url:

    http://www.mycookbook.com/

But you first must edit you Windows HOSTS file to add this domain name so
that your local machine can fake itself into thinking that your machine is "
www.mycookbook.com":

   - Select "Configure > Windows hosts file"
   - Add a line at the end that says "127.0.0.1    www.mycookbook.com"

You should now be able to browse to:

    http://www.mycookbook.com/

WARNING: This will not work if you have your browser connection set to use a
proxy server.

Curt
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From wfroelich at dbsnow.com  Tue Oct  3 14:23:05 2006
From: wfroelich at dbsnow.com (William (Bill) Froelich)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:23:05 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
Message-ID: <E1F1A8A6B4BBFA4A9E410F29858334300554C4E1@001MSGPRD1.dbsnow.int>

> -----Original Message-----
> Hi. My 1st post!
> 
> Been trying to get Ruby & Rails working on a windows machine 
> for most of yesterday. Gave up after not being able to get 
> IIS to bring up a Rails page on localhost.
> 
> So InstantRails seemed like the way forward. Got it installed 
> ok, but I cant get it to serve Rails pages, specifically the 
> cookbook app .. have gone through the instructions, and put 
> the index.html from the cookbook app folder into the www 
> folder. It says:
> 
> The requested URL /recipe/list was not found on this server.
> 
> (after loading http://www.railscookbook.com which redirects to
> http://www.railscookbook.com/recipe/list)
 
It sounds like you are trying to have IIS serve up your Rails app.  Out
of the box InstantRails is configured to use apache for serving the
apps.  I suspect that there may be a port conflict between Apache and
IIS on port 80.

I would try shutting down IIS and following the InstantRails
instructions to confirm that the IR setup is working as expected.  Then
you can decide on how to move forward with IIS. I recall from others
posts to the main Rails list that getting IIS working can be
challenging.

> If i try http://www.railscookbook.com:3001 it just loads forever.
> 
> This is all on Firefox.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Adam

This is typically a development URL that would be used with the dev web
server.  You can test this by going to the cookbook app directory and
starting Webrick from a command prompt.

c:\InstantRails-1.3\rails_apps\cookbook>ruby script/server

You should see output like the following

=> Booting WEBrick...
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options
[2006-10-03 13:19:49] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2006-10-03 13:19:49] INFO  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
[2006-10-03 13:19:49] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=13148
port=3000

Then you can go to http://www.railscookbook.com:3000 and it should load
up as expected (assuming you made the entry in your local hosts file).

What I typically use is http://localhost:3000 for my development testing

Let us know if this works or what results you get and we can try
troubleshooting more.

Good luck and welcome to Rails!

--Bill

From bill.walton at charter.net  Tue Oct  3 14:57:43 2006
From: bill.walton at charter.net (Bill Walton)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:57:43 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
References: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
Message-ID: <01bd01c6e71d$cf468150$6401a8c0@Presario>

Adam wrote:

> Hi. My 1st post!

Welcome!

> So InstantRails seemed like the way forward.

Absolutely!

> Got it installed ok, but I
> cant get it to serve Rails pages, specifically the cookbook app ..

Probably not ok then ;-)

> have gone through the instructions,

Which ones, exactly?

> If i try http://www.railscookbook.com:3001 it just loads forever.

Make sure your Windows Hosts file has an entry for localhost at 127.0.0.0. 
Then, using the IR Manager, start the app using WEBrick (not Apache for 
this).  Then try http://localhost:3000.

hth,
Bill 


From timuckun at gmail.com  Tue Oct  3 15:38:56 2006
From: timuckun at gmail.com (Tim Uckun)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:38:56 +1300
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
In-Reply-To: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
References: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
Message-ID: <855e4dcf0610031238s791ad05di8cf3af58f20f0c25@mail.gmail.com>

Did you modify your hosts file?

On 10/4/06, Adam <adam at prettystudio.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi. My 1st post!
>
> Been trying to get Ruby & Rails working on a windows machine for most of
> yesterday. Gave up after not being able to get IIS to bring up a Rails
> page on localhost.
>
> So InstantRails seemed like the way forward. Got it installed ok, but I
> cant get it to serve Rails pages, specifically the cookbook app .. have
> gone through the instructions, and put the index.html from the cookbook
> app folder into the www folder. It says:
>
> The requested URL /recipe/list was not found on this server.
>
> (after loading http://www.railscookbook.com which redirects to
> http://www.railscookbook.com/recipe/list)
>
> If i try http://www.railscookbook.com:3001 it just loads forever.
>
> This is all on Firefox.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Adam
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instantrails-users mailing list
> Instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instantrails-users
>

From mortonda at dgrmm.net  Tue Oct  3 23:54:54 2006
From: mortonda at dgrmm.net (David Morton)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:54:54 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
In-Reply-To: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
References: <4522800D.2080208@prettystudio.co.uk>
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On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Adam wrote:


> gone through the instructions, and put the index.html from the  
> cookbook
> app folder into the www folder. It says:
>

What instructions say to do that???

David Morton
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:45:34 +0100
Subject: [Instantrails-users] problems getting InstantRails working
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From david.havard at gmail.com  Mon Oct  9 16:46:46 2006
From: david.havard at gmail.com (Dave Havard)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:46:46 +0100
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors
Message-ID: <341cfd410610091346v647388cbue79ace2f4318b1ab@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?

Any pointers?

Thanks
Dave
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From curt.hibbs at gmail.com  Mon Oct  9 23:51:08 2006
From: curt.hibbs at gmail.com (Curt Hibbs)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:51:08 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors
In-Reply-To: <341cfd410610091346v647388cbue79ace2f4318b1ab@mail.gmail.com>
References: <341cfd410610091346v647388cbue79ace2f4318b1ab@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <31d15f490610092051jb7a12fbw26b22d4c6eb895d1@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/9/06, Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
>
> Any pointers?
>

You'll need to start mongrel by hand. Use Instant Rails to open a ruby
console window (menu command "Rails Applications>Open Ruby Console Window"),
change your current directory to move in to your Rails application's root
directory, and then type in the "mongrel_rails" command with whatever
options you like.

Curt
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From david.havard at gmail.com  Tue Oct 10 05:39:04 2006
From: david.havard at gmail.com (Dave Havard)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:39:04 +0100
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors
In-Reply-To: <31d15f490610092051jb7a12fbw26b22d4c6eb895d1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <341cfd410610091346v647388cbue79ace2f4318b1ab@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you Curt.

That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why some of
my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get logged - only
reported as a bad client to the console window. Any ideas what I should be
looking for? My view contains the following code:

<% @title = "Sign up" %>
<%= error_messages_for 'user' %>
<%= form_tag %>
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Username:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "username") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Password:</td>
        <td><%= password_field("user", "password") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Confirm Password:</td>
        <td><%= password_field("user", "confirm_password") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Email Address:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "email") %></td>
    <tr>
        <td>First Name:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "first_name") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Last Name:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "last_name") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Screen Name:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "screen_name") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td><input type="submit" value="Sign up"/></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<%= end_form_tag %>

Whilst my controller looks like:

  def signup
    if request.get?
      @user = User.new
    else
      if params[:user][:password] != params[:user][:confirm_password]
        flash[:notice] = "Passwords do not match!"
      else
        @user = User.new(params[:user])
        if @user.save
          session[:user] = @user.id
          redirect_to :controller => "pages", :action => "show", :id => 1
        end
      end
    end
  end

The get part of the view is being rendered fine. Only when I post back is it
failing.

Thanks
Dave

On 10/10/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/06, Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> > existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> > but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> > able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> > cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
>
> You'll need to start mongrel by hand. Use Instant Rails to open a ruby
> console window (menu command "Rails Applications>Open Ruby Console Window"),
> change your current directory to move in to your Rails application's root
> directory, and then type in the "mongrel_rails" command with whatever
> options you like.
>
> Curt
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instantrails-users mailing list
> Instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instantrails-users
>
>
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From mortonda at dgrmm.net  Tue Oct 10 10:38:13 2006
From: mortonda at dgrmm.net (David Morton)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:38:13 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors
In-Reply-To: <341cfd410610100239r38f5e327x50854b9dd12a33dc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <341cfd410610091346v647388cbue79ace2f4318b1ab@mail.gmail.com>	<31d15f490610092051jb7a12fbw26b22d4c6eb895d1@mail.gmail.com>
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Dave Havard wrote:
> Thank you Curt.
> 
> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any ideas
> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:


According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT error means the
web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with rails.

What browser are you using?

- From that FAQ:

What does BAD CLIENT mean?

It means that a request came in which Mongrel rejects because it doesn?t follow
the RFC grammar. Mongrel is pretty relaxed about most requests, but in order to
block the majority of security attacks for web servers it is strict about
characters used, header formats, status line formats, etc. This is also based on
matching the RFC?s grammar specification to a Ragel grammar specification, so
it?s easy to compare.

If you need to know why the client is triggering this, then simply hit your
Mongrel processes with USR1 signals and they?ll log the full request data and
parameters that were collected. Then, if you think the request is valid send me
this data and I?ll look. If it?s not valid than fix the client.

Mongrel takes the stance that all clients are written by software developers and
that they should follow the standard. By doing this it reduces the bugs and
potential security holes found in many other web servers. It also means that if
you absolutely have to allow a bad client, then you?ll need to not use Mongrel.




- --
David Morton
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From mortonda at dgrmm.net  Tue Oct 10 15:01:17 2006
From: mortonda at dgrmm.net (David Morton)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:01:17 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors
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On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:38 AM, David Morton wrote:

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> Dave Havard wrote:
>> Thank you Curt.
>>
>> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
>> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
>> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any  
>> ideas
>> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
>
>
> According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT  
> error means the
> web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with  
> rails.

actually, now that I think about it, perhaps a request has a bad  
character in it, or isn't properly url encoded?



David Morton
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From david.havard at gmail.com  Tue Oct 10 19:16:25 2006
From: david.havard at gmail.com (Dave Havard)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:16:25 +0100
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors
In-Reply-To: <2EF7A47A-5E18-4A10-A34C-1892031C2050@dgrmm.net>
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Thanks David

So are they saying that mongrel will fail if the browser is not right? I am
testing on IE6.0.29 and FF1.5. Would be surprised if mongrel does not work
with these browsers - how could it be used in production?

Have you heard about this problem much? Seems like mongrel is become the
server of choice for rails, but even the scaffold code is failing - can't
believe it is rails or this issue would be plastered all over the net by
now. At the same time a web server which will not work with FF1.5 seem
unrealistic.

Could it be something else? Maybe apache is changing something before
passing the request to mongrel?

Given InstantRails is installing elsewhere without fuss i'll test on some
more machines...

Thanks for your help.
Dave



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> > Dave Havard wrote:
> >> Thank you Curt.
> >>
> >> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> >> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> >> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any
> >> ideas
> >> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
> >
> >
> > According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT
> > error means the
> > web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with
> > rails.
>
> actually, now that I think about it, perhaps a request has a bad
> character in it, or isn't properly url encoded?
>
>
>
> David Morton
> Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com
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From curt.hibbs at gmail.com  Tue Oct 10 23:04:24 2006
From: curt.hibbs at gmail.com (Curt Hibbs)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:04:24 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] What could be causing this BAD CLIENT error?
Message-ID: <31d15f490610102004r32b44dd2kc44bbd8240ca78fc@mail.gmail.com>

Zed, I've copied a thread from the Instant Rais mailing list below. Could
you take a quick look and see if you have any idea what might be going on
here?

Thanks
Curt

*[Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors*
6 messages
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  * Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> *  * Mon, Oct 9, 2006 at 3:46
PM *  Reply-To:
instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
 To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
   Hi

I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?

Any pointers?

Thanks
Dave

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  * Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs at gmail.com> *  * Mon, Oct 9, 2006 at 10:51
PM *  Reply-To:
curt at hibbs.com
 To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
   On 10/9/06, Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
>
> Any pointers?
>

You'll need to start mongrel by hand. Use Instant Rails to open a ruby
console window (menu command "Rails Applications>Open Ruby Console Window"),
change your current directory to move in to your Rails application's root
directory, and then type in the "mongrel_rails" command with whatever
options you like.

Curt
  ------------------------------
  * Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at
4:39 AM *  To:
curt at hibbs.com, instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
   Thank you Curt.

That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why some of
my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get logged - only
reported as a bad client to the console window. Any ideas what I should be
looking for? My view contains the following code:

<% @title = "Sign up" %>
<%= error_messages_for 'user' %>
<%= form_tag %>
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Username:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "username") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Password:</td>
        <td><%= password_field("user", "password") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Confirm Password:</td>
        <td><%= password_field("user", "confirm_password") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Email Address:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "email") %></td>
    <tr>
        <td>First Name:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "first_name") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Last Name:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "last_name") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Screen Name:</td>
        <td><%= text_field("user", "screen_name") %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td><input type="submit" value="Sign up"/></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<%= end_form_tag %>

Whilst my controller looks like:

  def signup
    if request.get?
      @user = User.new
    else
      if params[:user][:password] != params[:user][:confirm_password]
        flash[:notice] = "Passwords do not match!"
      else
        @user = User.new(params[:user])
        if @user.save
          session[:user] = @user.id
          redirect_to :controller => "pages", :action => "show", :id => 1
        end
      end
    end
  end

The get part of the view is being rendered fine. Only when I post back is it
failing.

Thanks
Dave

On 10/10/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/06, Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> > existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> > but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> > able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> > cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
>
> You'll need to start mongrel by hand. Use Instant Rails to open a ruby
> console window (menu command "Rails Applications>Open Ruby Console Window"),
> change your current directory to move in to your Rails application's root
> directory, and then type in the "mongrel_rails" command with whatever
> options you like.
>
> Curt
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instantrails-users mailing list
> Instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instantrails-users
>
>
  ------------------------------
  * David Morton <mortonda at dgrmm.net> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 9:38 AM *  To:
instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
 Cc: curt at hibbs.com
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Dave Havard wrote:
> Thank you Curt.
>
> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any ideas
> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:


According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT error means
the
web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with rails.

What browser are you using?

- From that FAQ:

What does BAD CLIENT mean?

It means that a request came in which Mongrel rejects because it doesn?t
follow
the RFC grammar. Mongrel is pretty relaxed about most requests, but in order
to
block the majority of security attacks for web servers it is strict about
characters used, header formats, status line formats, etc. This is also
based on
matching the RFC?s grammar specification to a Ragel grammar specification,
so
it?s easy to compare.

If you need to know why the client is triggering this, then simply hit your
Mongrel processes with USR1 signals and they?ll log the full request data
and
parameters that were collected. Then, if you think the request is valid send
me
this data and I?ll look. If it?s not valid than fix the client.

Mongrel takes the stance that all clients are written by software developers
and
that they should follow the standard. By doing this it reduces the bugs and
potential security holes found in many other web servers. It also means that
if
you absolutely have to allow a bad client, then you?ll need to not use
Mongrel.




- --
David Morton
Maia Mailguard                        - http://www.maiamailguard.com
Morton Software Design and Consulting - http://www.dgrmm.net
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  * David Morton <mortonda at dgrmm.net> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 2:01 PM *  To:
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On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:38 AM, David Morton wrote:

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> Dave Havard wrote:
>> Thank you Curt.
>>
>> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
>> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
>> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any
>> ideas
>> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
>
>
> According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT
> error means the
> web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with
> rails.

actually, now that I think about it, perhaps a request has a bad
character in it, or isn't properly url encoded?



David Morton
Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com
mortonda at dgrmm.net



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 * Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 6:16
PM *  Reply-To:
instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
 To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
   Thanks David

So are they saying that mongrel will fail if the browser is not right? I am
testing on IE6.0.29 and FF1.5. Would be surprised if mongrel does not work
with these browsers - how could it be used in production?

Have you heard about this problem much? Seems like mongrel is become the
server of choice for rails, but even the scaffold code is failing - can't
believe it is rails or this issue would be plastered all over the net by
now. At the same time a web server which will not work with FF1.5 seem
unrealistic.

Could it be something else? Maybe apache is changing something before
passing the request to mongrel?

Given InstantRails is installing elsewhere without fuss i'll test on some
more machines...

Thanks for your help.
Dave



On 10/10/06, David Morton <mortonda at dgrmm.net> wrote:
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> On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:38 AM, David Morton wrote:
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> > Dave Havard wrote:
> >> Thank you Curt.
> >>
> >> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> >> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> >> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any
> >> ideas
> >> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
> >
> >
> > According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT
> > error means the
> > web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with
> > rails.
>
> actually, now that I think about it, perhaps a request has a bad
> character in it, or isn't properly url encoded?
>
>
>
> David Morton
> Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com
> mortonda at dgrmm.net
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From david.havard at gmail.com  Wed Oct 11 06:28:46 2006
From: david.havard at gmail.com (Dave Havard)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:28:46 +0100
Subject: [Instantrails-users] What could be causing this BAD CLIENT
	error?
In-Reply-To: <31d15f490610102004r32b44dd2kc44bbd8240ca78fc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <31d15f490610102004r32b44dd2kc44bbd8240ca78fc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <341cfd410610110328m742561c3r5009d6375702a8de@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Curt

Ok, I have now tested from another windows box running IE (same version) and
all works fine. Have also tested from my SUSE10.1 box running FF (same
version) and both work fine. Strangley IE is now working on my development
box (XP) today - not sure if changed something or just got confused in the
battle yesterday!? Anyway now it is just FF not working.

I have tried uninstalling each extension but none had an effect, also tried
reinstalling FF but still no change.

Any suggestions on what to try next?

Thanks
Dave

On 11/10/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Zed, I've copied a thread from the Instant Rais mailing list below. Could
> you take a quick look and see if you have any idea what might be going on
> here?
>
> Thanks
> Curt
>
> *[Instantrails-users] Mongrel BAD CLIENT errors *
> 6 messages
> ------------------------------
>   * Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> *  * Mon, Oct 9, 2006 at 3:46 PM
> *   Reply-To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>  To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>    Hi
>
> I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instantrails-users mailing list
> Instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instantrails-users
>
>  ------------------------------
>   * Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs at gmail.com> *  * Mon, Oct 9, 2006 at 10:51 PM *  Reply-To:
> curt at hibbs.com
>  To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>    On 10/9/06, Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> > existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> > but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> > able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> > cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
>
> You'll need to start mongrel by hand. Use Instant Rails to open a ruby
> console window (menu command "Rails Applications>Open Ruby Console Window"),
> change your current directory to move in to your Rails application's root
> directory, and then type in the "mongrel_rails" command with whatever
> options you like.
>
> Curt
>   ------------------------------
>   * Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 4:39 AM
> *   To: curt at hibbs.com, instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>    Thank you Curt.
>
> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why some
> of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get logged -
> only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any ideas what I should
> be looking for? My view contains the following code:
>
> <% @title = "Sign up" %>
> <%= error_messages_for 'user' %>
> <%= form_tag %>
> <table>
>     <tr>
>         <td>Username:</td>
>         <td><%= text_field("user", "username") %></td>
>     </tr>
>     <tr>
>         <td>Password:</td>
>         <td><%= password_field("user", "password") %></td>
>     </tr>
>     <tr>
>         <td>Confirm Password:</td>
>         <td><%= password_field("user", "confirm_password") %></td>
>     </tr>
>     <tr>
>         <td>Email Address:</td>
>         <td><%= text_field("user", "email") %></td>
>     <tr>
>         <td>First Name:</td>
>         <td><%= text_field("user", "first_name") %></td>
>     </tr>
>     <tr>
>         <td>Last Name:</td>
>         <td><%= text_field("user", "last_name") %></td>
>     </tr>
>     <tr>
>         <td>Screen Name:</td>
>         <td><%= text_field("user", "screen_name") %></td>
>     </tr>
>     <tr>
>         <td></td>
>         <td><input type="submit" value="Sign up"/></td>
>     </tr>
> </table>
> <%= end_form_tag %>
>
> Whilst my controller looks like:
>
>   def signup
>     if request.get?
>       @user = User.new
>     else
>       if params[:user][:password] != params[:user][:confirm_password]
>         flash[:notice] = "Passwords do not match!"
>       else
>         @user = User.new(params[:user])
>         if @user.save
>           session[:user] = @user.id
>           redirect_to :controller => "pages", :action => "show", :id => 1
>         end
>       end
>     end
>   end
>
> The get part of the view is being rendered fine. Only when I post back is
> it failing.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>  On 10/10/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On 10/9/06, Dave Havard < david.havard at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have just installed InstantRails and (after some work) have got my
> > > existing app working. I am now getting BAD CLIENT errors on some form posts
> > > but have no idea why. Having looked at the mongrel docs it seems I should be
> > > able to get to the bottom of this if I can get debug set to true but I
> > > cannot see where to do this in InstantRails?
> > >
> > > Any pointers?
> > >
> >
> > You'll need to start mongrel by hand. Use Instant Rails to open a ruby
> > console window (menu command "Rails Applications>Open Ruby Console Window"),
> > change your current directory to move in to your Rails application's root
> > directory, and then type in the "mongrel_rails" command with whatever
> > options you like.
> >
> > Curt
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Instantrails-users mailing list
> > Instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instantrails-users
> >
> >
>   ------------------------------
>   * David Morton <mortonda at dgrmm.net> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 9:38 AM *   To:
> instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>  Cc: curt at hibbs.com
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> Dave Havard wrote:
> > Thank you Curt.
> >
> > That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> > some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> > logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any ideas
> > what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
>
>
> According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT error
> means the
> web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with rails.
>
> What browser are you using?
>
> - From that FAQ:
>
> What does BAD CLIENT mean?
>
> It means that a request came in which Mongrel rejects because it doesn?t
> follow
> the RFC grammar. Mongrel is pretty relaxed about most requests, but in
> order to
> block the majority of security attacks for web servers it is strict about
> characters used, header formats, status line formats, etc. This is also
> based on
> matching the RFC?s grammar specification to a Ragel grammar specification,
> so
> it?s easy to compare.
>
> If you need to know why the client is triggering this, then simply hit
> your
> Mongrel processes with USR1 signals and they?ll log the full request data
> and
> parameters that were collected. Then, if you think the request is valid
> send me
> this data and I?ll look. If it?s not valid than fix the client.
>
> Mongrel takes the stance that all clients are written by software
> developers and
> that they should follow the standard. By doing this it reduces the bugs
> and
> potential security holes found in many other web servers. It also means
> that if
> you absolutely have to allow a bad client, then you?ll need to not use
> Mongrel.
>
>
>
>
> - --
> David Morton
> Maia Mailguard                        - http://www.maiamailguard.com
> Morton Software Design and Consulting - http://www.dgrmm.net
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> On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:38 AM, David Morton wrote:
>
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> >
> > Dave Havard wrote:
> >> Thank you Curt.
> >>
> >> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> >> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> >> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any
> >> ideas
> >> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
> >
> >
> > According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT
> > error means the
> > web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with
> > rails.
>
> actually, now that I think about it, perhaps a request has a bad
> character in it, or isn't properly url encoded?
>
>
>
> David Morton
> Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com
> mortonda at dgrmm.net
>
>
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>  * Dave Havard <david.havard at gmail.com> *  * Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 6:16 PM
> *   Reply-To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>  To: instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
>    Thanks David
>
> So are they saying that mongrel will fail if the browser is not right? I
> am testing on IE6.0.29 and FF1.5. Would be surprised if mongrel does not
> work with these browsers - how could it be used in production?
>
> Have you heard about this problem much? Seems like mongrel is become the
> server of choice for rails, but even the scaffold code is failing - can't
> believe it is rails or this issue would be plastered all over the net by
> now. At the same time a web server which will not work with FF1.5 seem
> unrealistic.
>
> Could it be something else? Maybe apache is changing something before
> passing the request to mongrel?
>
> Given InstantRails is installing elsewhere without fuss i'll test on some
> more machines...
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 10/10/06, David Morton < mortonda at dgrmm.net> wrote:
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:38 AM, David Morton wrote:
> >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > Dave Havard wrote:
> > >> Thank you Curt.
> > >>
> > >> That has got debugging working but has made things no clearer on why
> > >> some of my form posts are not working. The post does not seem to get
> > >> logged - only reported as a bad client to the console window. Any
> > >> ideas
> > >> what I should be looking for? My view contains the following code:
> > >
> > >
> > > According to http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html, a BAD CLIENT
> > > error means the
> > > web browser sent an invalid HTTP request; it has nothing to do with
> > > rails.
> >
> > actually, now that I think about it, perhaps a request has a bad
> > character in it, or isn't properly url encoded?
> >
> >
> >
> > David Morton
> > Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com
> > mortonda at dgrmm.net
> >
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instantrails-users mailing list
> Instantrails-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instantrails-users
>
>
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From billfly at programmer.net  Mon Oct 16 14:15:30 2006
From: billfly at programmer.net (Bill Fly)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:15:30 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
Message-ID: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>

Why does InstantRails include Apache?  One uses Mongrel through the 
Manage Applications menu or WEBrick if you run Ruby script/server, so 
what does Apache do for InstantRails?
Thanks,
Bill

From curt.hibbs at gmail.com  Mon Oct 16 14:52:57 2006
From: curt.hibbs at gmail.com (Curt Hibbs)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:52:57 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
Message-ID: <31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/16/06, Bill Fly <billfly at programmer.net> wrote:
>
> Why does InstantRails include Apache?  One uses Mongrel through the
> Manage Applications menu or WEBrick if you run Ruby script/server, so
> what does Apache do for InstantRails?
> Thanks,
> Bill
>

Three things come to mind:

1) When you're almost ready to deploy into production, you can test you
application in an environment that more closely approximates the production
environment.

2) You can use IR as a lightweight production server. In this case Apache is
necessary if you are serving multiple Rails apps, each with its own domain (
i.e., you need virtual hosting, which mongrel doesn't provide).

3) Apache is needed to run the included MyPhpAdmin for administering your
MySQL database.

Curt
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From mortonda at dgrmm.net  Mon Oct 16 16:21:55 2006
From: mortonda at dgrmm.net (David Morton)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:21:55 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
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On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Bill Fly wrote:

> Why does InstantRails include Apache?  One uses Mongrel through the
> Manage Applications menu or WEBrick if you run Ruby script/server, so
> what does Apache do for InstantRails?

Well, really, it doesn't do much of anything for a single app, but  
it's there as a placeholder to show that rails works with apache;  
Apache can host several sites (virtual hosting), whereas mongrel  
can't...

It's also a placeholder until we get apache 1.3 replaced with apache  
2.2, which can do the the load balancing to multiple mongrel.

If you use IR for development and for a single app,  just use mongrel.


David Morton
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mortonda at dgrmm.net



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From timuckun at gmail.com  Mon Oct 16 16:36:40 2006
From: timuckun at gmail.com (Tim Uckun)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:36:40 +1300
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
	<31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <855e4dcf0610161336h4bb3c16i12b126ca85a23284@mail.gmail.com>

Now that SQL yog is open source and free I for one don't see the need
for phpmysql.   I suppose it's useful in those circumstances where you
only have the MSQL listening on a local socket but in most dev
environments that's not the case.

Having said that if one was to be truly minimalist one would use
sqlite for development and mysql (or whatever) for production and
testing and use migrations for all the schema changes so it would all
work autmagically thanks to activerecord. In a perfect world of
course.

Just my $.02

From mortonda at dgrmm.net  Tue Oct 17 11:45:12 2006
From: mortonda at dgrmm.net (David Morton)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:45:12 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <855e4dcf0610161336h4bb3c16i12b126ca85a23284@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>	<31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>
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Tim Uckun wrote:
> Now that SQL yog is open source and free I for one don't see the need
> for phpmysql.   I suppose it's useful in those circumstances where you

We are planning to have IR be multiplatform; SQLyog is only for windows.


- --
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From lists at davidlangston.com  Tue Oct 17 15:29:00 2006
From: lists at davidlangston.com (Dave Langston)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:29:00 -0700
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <4534FA88.5000509@dgrmm.net>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>	<31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>	<855e4dcf0610161336h4bb3c16i12b126ca85a23284@mail.gmail.com>
	<4534FA88.5000509@dgrmm.net>
Message-ID: <45352EFC.6060301@davidlangston.com>

IR Developers,

Have you looked at the Mysql tools ( 
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/ ).  They are cross platform and are 
available with same licensing as Mysql itself (and are generally more 
powerful than MyPhpAdmin  IMO)...

rgds,
Dave L.


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>>     
>
> We are planning to have IR be multiplatform; SQLyog is only for windows.
>
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> David Morton
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From tanner.burson at gmail.com  Tue Oct 17 15:51:10 2006
From: tanner.burson at gmail.com (Tanner Burson)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:51:10 -0500
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <45352EFC.6060301@davidlangston.com>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
	<31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>
	<855e4dcf0610161336h4bb3c16i12b126ca85a23284@mail.gmail.com>
	<4534FA88.5000509@dgrmm.net> <45352EFC.6060301@davidlangston.com>
Message-ID: <e25e4df80610171251u36c93a90h15038775a0c08930@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/17/06, Dave Langston <lists at davidlangston.com> wrote:
>
> IR Developers,
>
> Have you looked at the Mysql tools (
> http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/ ).  They are cross platform and are
> available with same licensing as Mysql itself (and are generally more
> powerful than MyPhpAdmin  IMO)...


I have personally used them, and find it almost unbearably buggy on Linux.
It's useful in a pinch, but I've found myself diving into the mysql command
line to avoid using that tool.

rgds,
> Dave L.
>
>
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> >> for phpmysql.   I suppose it's useful in those circumstances where you
> >>
> >
> > We are planning to have IR be multiplatform; SQLyog is only for windows.
> >
> >
> > - --
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From timuckun at gmail.com  Tue Oct 17 16:57:47 2006
From: timuckun at gmail.com (Tim Uckun)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:57:47 +1300
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Why Apache and Mongrel?
In-Reply-To: <e25e4df80610171251u36c93a90h15038775a0c08930@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4533CC42.9020407@programmer.net>
	<31d15f490610161152g5ecc78d4pac768360a6bfc396@mail.gmail.com>
	<855e4dcf0610161336h4bb3c16i12b126ca85a23284@mail.gmail.com>
	<4534FA88.5000509@dgrmm.net> <45352EFC.6060301@davidlangston.com>
	<e25e4df80610171251u36c93a90h15038775a0c08930@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <855e4dcf0610171357t5e89c393qbbae601223fecd9b@mail.gmail.com>

If you are going to include a mysql tool then I would think phpmysql
would be one that has the smallest footprint and still be cross
platform.

Is there something like phpmysql written in rails? That would be ideal
I would think.

From pa_inbox at yahoo.com  Wed Oct 18 16:50:25 2006
From: pa_inbox at yahoo.com (Pankaj Agarwal)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Edge Rails..
Message-ID: <20061018205025.7558.qmail@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I am trying to update my InstantRails installation to
Edge rails but getting below error on 

E:\work\deopt_local\depot>rake rails:freeze:edge
--trace
(in E:/work/deopt_local/depot)
rake aborted!
no such file to load --
E:/work/deopt_local/depot/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
E:/work/deopt_local/depot/config/boot.rb:16
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
E:/work/deopt_local/depot/rakefile:4
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1828:in
`load'
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1828:in
`load_rakefile'
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1900:in
`run'
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7
E:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25:in `load'
E:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25


Help is appreciated. -Panks

From pa_inbox at yahoo.com  Wed Oct 18 21:05:59 2006
From: pa_inbox at yahoo.com (Pankaj Agarwal)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Instantrails-users] Edge Rails..
Message-ID: <20061019010559.90008.qmail@web37206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I also tried below 
gem update -s http://gems.rubyonrails.org
suggested by DHH at
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000348.html

but I get an ambiguous option: -s error

--- Pankaj Agarwal <pa_inbox at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am trying to update my InstantRails installation
> to
> Edge rails but getting below error on 
> 
> E:\work\deopt_local\depot>rake rails:freeze:edge
> --trace
> (in E:/work/deopt_local/depot)
> rake aborted!
> no such file to load --
>
E:/work/deopt_local/depot/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
> E:/work/deopt_local/depot/config/boot.rb:16
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
> E:/work/deopt_local/depot/rakefile:4
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1828:in
> `load'
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1828:in
> `load_rakefile'
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1900:in
> `run'
>
E:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7
> E:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25:in `load'
> E:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25
> 
> 
> Help is appreciated. -Panks
>