Problem with routes.rb in rails 2.3.2

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Problem with routes.rb in rails 2.3.2:

The problems occurs if the rails version is "frozen" or not. I get the same problem when the routes are present in the routes.rb file.

In order to try to figure out the problem, I commented out all the routes in routes.rb, so the following are the only two statements in routes.rb:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|

end

When I run

“# rake routes –trace”

I get: (in /home/aksrefle/aks232) ** Invoke routes (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment rake aborted! interning empty string /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:215:in `to_sym' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:215:in `valid_locale?' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:234:in `split' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:113:in `initialize' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:87:in `new' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:87:in `create_template' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:82:in `templates_in_path' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:81:in `each' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:81:in `templates_in_path' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/ template.rb:64:in `load!' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:147:in `to_proc' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/paths.rb: 40:in `each' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/paths.rb: 40:in `load!' /home/aksrefle/aks232/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ initializer.rb:381:in `load_view_paths' /home/aksrefle/aks232/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ initializer.rb:192:in `process' /home/aksrefle/aks232/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ initializer.rb:113:in `send' /home/aksrefle/aks232/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ initializer.rb:113:in `run' /home/aksrefle/aks232/config/environment.rb:19 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:156:in `require' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:156:in `require' /home/aksrefle/aks232/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/misc.rake:4 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2027:in `invoke_task' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1999:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1977:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1974:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/bin/rake:19

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Why are you even trying that? Don't.

-eric

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I get the same error on the website. This was my attempt at trying to figure out where the problem is. At first I thought it was in environment.rb, now I am thinking it has something to do with routes.rb.

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Given the second method down in the trace, I'd say you've not set the locale on your machine. See the section on locales here:

http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-page-2

--Matt Jones

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Matt, thanks for you response. Initially I thought the problem was with locale, but I am using the default locale and have not changed anything in the configuration. Eventually, I created a new rails 2.3.2 project and added my application, one controller at a time. At each step I ran "rake routes" and made sure it worked. I must have run a hundred "rake routes" (well, maybe twenty) and eventually I had almost the whole application working. I finally ran into the problem again when I moved into the views/layouts directory a layout erb file that had no corresponding controller and views with the same name. As soon as I deleted the "extra" layouts, it worked again. I am not sure if this was the root cause, but my application is now working under rails 2.3.2.