Rob Percival wrote:
Thanks very much for your reply. Unfortunately, I'm not up enough on RoR
to know what the production.log or functional tests are! I'm just trying
to edit a pre-existing RoR module (Hostpay with heartinternet.co.uk).
If you are the software's client, not its programmer, then is this a
tech-support question for heartinternet?
All the following assumes you have source; if you don't, there's nothing
this list can do. "Nothing" is not an aphorism, because that website is
probably too secure for us to get to its production log!
I
thought I would be able to do it without mucking through RoR
installation, setup etc, but perhaps not!
Excellent; learning Rails is very good for you!
Get "the Agile book", meaning /Agile Web Development with Rails/ by the
Daves.
Next, did the original author of this code write anything into the test
folder? Run this line:
grep test_ test/*/* | grep -v test_dummy
Does it return any test cases? Next run this:
rake stats
Do you get a grid of statistics, and does it include a unit test count?
Correlate the rows "Functional tests" and "Unit tests" with the column
"methods" - the number should be higher than the number of methods in your
Controllers and Models.
If not, you should reject this program if possible; it's not worth working
with.
However, a unit test might not capture your error, so now we are going to
find the production log. Read config/deploy.rb to learn the name of the
target server, and the path to the deployment location.
ssh to that server.
cd into the deployment folder, and look for the folders "releases" and
"current". They show you are in the right spot. Then cd into "currrent/log",
and enter:
less production.log
now search for the error, using the / command.
If you get this far on any of these tips, report back here. If not, you must
get tech support for this product!