ActionView::TemplateError

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Hi,

I've developed an application last year, deployed it to the web server and it worked great. Last week, there were some changes to the hosting plan (changing username mainly ...) but for some reason I am experiencing problems with an application now (same application that worked before).

The application uses rails 1.2.3. The error that the production log has is:

ActionView::TemplateError (Expected ../config/../app/models/product.rb to define Product) on line #19 of app/views/home/index.rhtml: 16: <div class="floatleft"> 17: <h2>Featured Products</h2> 18: <ul> 19: <% if Product.valid %> 20: <% Product.featured.each do |f| %> 21: <li><%= link_to f.title, :controller => "catalog", :action => "show", :id => f.id %></li> 22: <% end %>

Would you know why suddenly it is giving me grief? and/or how to fix it?

TIA, Elle

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That unhelpful message means "something went wrong loading product.rb". If you ruby script/console and just type Product

You should get a better error message.

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Ok, so on my local machine the site loads fine -- no error messages. Same application on the web server (which worked fine beforehand) -- does not. I do have SSH access but I am not sure how to get the console on the web server.

I will contact the web host as well. Any other suggestions as to what to look for? Thanks, Elle

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Hi Elle,

After sshing into your server, you can access the console by doing the following: $ /path/to/your/app/script/console production

Note that you may need to change permissions on console to execute it. $ sudo chmod a+x /path/to/your/app/script/console

If you don't find a more helpful error message, would you paste your product.rb file here?