Problem
You are trying to use the pdfkit (here) in your rails application, and you configure it according to the configuration options for the rails 2.x in the config/environment.rb file. Although the application works, when you are trying to use the console you get the error:
no such file to load -- pdfkit (LoadError)
Solution
Make sure that:
require 'pdfkit'
in the config/environment.rb file comes after the line:
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot')
Problem
Your old tests with shoulda are written using the old style should_have, should_belong, etc, which are now deprecated.
Solution
The new style of writing shoulda unit tests is should have, should belong_to etc. All the new macros can be found here
Problem
New security vulnerability in nested attributes in Rails 2.3.9 and 3.0.0
Solution
More details and links to patches for upgrading here
Problem
You are hosting your MySQL server in a shared host which is in a different country from your application’s local timezone, and you cannot change the MySQL system timezone, but you would like to use sysdate for date comparisons.
Solution
In your SQL query that you use for comparing with the system date/time, use the convert_tz function in MySQL, using the appropriate local time zone (ie Europe/London):
convert_tz(sysdate(),'SYSTEM','Europe/London')
Problem
You have set up your capistrano recipe for deployment to dreamhost using password less logins, but after dreamhost moves your git repository server to a different server, the deployment breaks, with ‘permission denied’ when trying to get the git repository.
Solution
As the server was moved you would need to copy your ssh public key from the deployment server to the new server again for the password-less logins to work again.
Follow the details here how to copy your public key across, login in once with your password, and after that your capistrano recipe should be working again as normal.
Problem
You are trying to use shoulda with factory_girl but you are getting the above error:
NameError: uninitialized constant UserTest::Factory
Solution
Insert the following to your config/environments/test.rb
config.gem 'shoulda', :lib => 'shoulda'
install the gem with:
sudo gem install shoulda
add the following to your test/test_helper.rb
require 'factory_girl'
require "factories"
in your test use the new syntax without the underscore, as in:
should belong_to(:model)
Problem
You have installed various versions of rails (ie 3.0, 2.3.8, 2.3.5 etc). You want to create a new rails application for a specific version, and if you run rails app_name, it will create an application in the latest version you have installed.
Solution
Use the following if you want to create a specific rails (ie 2.3.8) application:
rails _2.3.8_ app_name