[Mongrel] How to get a decent stack trace?

[Zed A. Shaw]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:57:23 +0200
Andreas Korth <andreas.korth at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just gave Mongrel a try on my Rails app. After running  
> 'mongrel_rails start' everything seems fine. Yet, when I start a  
> request I get the following error message on the console:
> 
> ERROR: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> The error occured while evaluating nil.readpartial
> 

Hmm, that should happen.  What version of Mongrel and Ruby.  Also, try running your mongrel then do:

killall -USR1 mongrel_rails

When you do this it toggles "USR1 Debugging" which dumps more stack traces and information.


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