uninitialized constant User::Authentication
I've hosted acts-as-blogr on Slicehost for a while now, but I recently signed up for shared hosting through Dreamhost. They had a promotion of 2 years of hosting for $22 which I couldn't pass up now that they support Passenger for Rails apps. Anyway, I finally got around to deploying an app with Passenger and I had a little problem.
Upon doing the initial 'cap deploy:migrations', it failed with this error
* executing "cd /home/brentmc79/brentmc79.com/releases/20090122070240; rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate"
servers: ["brentmc79.com"]
[brentmc79.com] executing command
** [out :: brentmc79.com] (in /home/brentmc79/brentmc79.com/releases/20090122070240)
** [out :: brentmc79.com] rake aborted!
** [out :: brentmc79.com] uninitialized constant User::Authentication
** [out :: brentmc79.com]
** [out :: brentmc79.com] (See full trace by running task with --trace)
command finished
failed: "sh -c \"cd /home/brentmc79/brentmc79.com/releases/20090122070240; rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate\"" on brentmc79.com
This was clearly something to do with restful_authentication since it was complaining about User::Authentication. I did a bit of googling, but I didn't come up with much. Somebody mentioned renaming the plugin to not have a hyphen, but that just seemed silly. Someone else mentioned some session/cookie issue, but I hadn't even made it to the browser. It was failing on db:migrate. Finally, someone mentioned that they had forgotten to include the plugin in their repo. This got me to thinkin...
I knew that I had included the plugin, but I decided to take a look at the Github repo in the browser. Here's what I saw:
The restful_authentication plugin was actually a cloned repo sitting inside my working copy. I'm sure there's probably some clever way to enable a repo inside of a repo, but it was 2am and I just wanted it to work. So I just rm'd the restful_authentication plugin from the vendor directory, download the tarball from Github, and extracted it back into vendor/plugins. Using the tarball instead of the clone gives you all the code without all the git info.
I committed/pushed, then ran 'cap deploy:migrations' again and the database migrated with no uninitialized constant error. Viola! Unfortunately, then I just moved on to the next issue...
After a couple more tweaks and deploys, I finally had it up and running.
