Re: A Mongrel of an Error

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:49 AM, shusseina<s.anderson.au@...> wrote:

> Viewing http://localhost:3000/stories in my browser should display the
> file app/views/stories/index.html.erb, but instead displays the
> following error:
>
> Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html
> 500 Internal Server Error
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this error?
...
>  Status: 500 Internal Server Error
>  A secret is required to generate an integrity hash for cookie
> session data. Use config.action_controller.session = { :session_key =>
> "_myapp_session", :secret => "some secret phrase of at least 30
> characters" } in config/environment.rb

Well, it's telling you how to fix it. You need to put something like

  config.action_controller.session = {
      :session_key = "-myapp_session", # where myapp should be the
name of your application instead of myap
      :secret => "Some Random String at least 30 characters long,
usually a long hexadecimal string"
  }

somewhere inside the intializer block (which begins with)
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|

inside config/environment.rb

You can and probably should use rake secret to generate the secret.


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