Rails failing on Tomcat with JRuby 9.1.12

I am having problems getting JRuby 9.1.12 to run my Rails project. I was previously on 9.1.2, and that works fine. All I have done is updated JRuby, and now it fails.

To investigate, I created a test project, first using JRuby 9.1.2:

rails new testy --database postgresql cd testy rails g scaffold Location name:string

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Location is a table in an existing database, so quicker for testing. I deleted the migration, copied across database.yml from my project, and edited secret.yml so it uses the same key as the tests. Then:

rake test warble

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Then I put the .war into Tomcat and it works fine. So then JRuby 9.1.12:

gem uninstall -v 9.1.2 jruby-jars gem install -v 9.1.12 jruby-jars warble

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I stop Tomcat, delete the old files, and put this new war in. Now I see this when going to a page in testy:

org.jruby.rack.RackInitializationException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jruby.rack.RackInitializationException.wrap(RackInitializationException.java:31) at org.jruby.rack.RackApplicationFactoryDecorator.init(RackApplicationFactoryDecorator.java:104) at org.jruby.rack.RackServletContextListener.contextInitialized(RackServletContextListener.java:50) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4853) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5314) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:753) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:729) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:976) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1853) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.String.getBytes(Unknown Source) at org.jruby.ast.SymbolNode.(SymbolNode.java:54) at org.jruby.parser.ParserSupport.asSymbol(ParserSupport.java:975) at org.jruby.parser.RubyParser$379.execute(RubyParser.java:4286) at org.jruby.parser.RubyParser.yyparse(RubyParser.java:1677) at org.jruby.parser.RubyParser.yyparse(RubyParser.java:1568) at org.jruby.parser.RubyParser.parse(RubyParser.java:5365) at org.jruby.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:128) at org.jruby.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:77) at org.jruby.Ruby.parseEval(Ruby.java:2722) at org.jruby.ir.interpreter.Interpreter.prepareIC(Interpreter.java:211) at org.jruby.ir.interpreter.Interpreter.evalCommon(Interpreter.java:167) at org.jruby.ir.interpreter.Interpreter.evalWithBinding(Interpreter.java:200) at org.jruby.RubyKernel.evalCommon(RubyKernel.java:1033) at org.jruby.RubyKernel.eval19(RubyKernel.java:1000) at org.jruby.RubyKernel$INVOKER$s$0$3$eval19.call(RubyKernel$INVOKER$s$0$3$eval19.gen) …

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I have Googled the error, but found nothing, so I am a bit stuck! I am using Java 1.8.0.131 (32 bit), Tomcat 8.0.45 (32 bit), Warbler 2.0.4 on Windows 7 Pro.

Any help or suggestions appreciated.

Here are the gems from gemfile.lock:

GEM remote: https://rubygems.org/ specs: actionmailer (4.2.9) actionpack (= 4.2.9) actionview (= 4.2.9) activejob (= 4.2.9) mail (~> 2.5, >= 2.5.4) rails-dom-testing (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.5) actionpack (4.2.9) actionview (= 4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) rack (~> 1.6) rack-test (~> 0.6.2) rails-dom-testing (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.5) rails-html-sanitizer (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.2) actionview (4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) builder (~> 3.1) erubis (~> 2.7.0) rails-dom-testing (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.5) rails-html-sanitizer (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.3) activejob (4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) globalid (>= 0.3.0) activemodel (4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) builder (~> 3.1) activerecord (4.2.9) activemodel (= 4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) arel (~> 6.0) activerecord-jdbc-adapter (1.3.23) activerecord (>= 2.2, < 5.0) activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter (1.3.23) activerecord-jdbc-adapter (~> 1.3.23) jdbc-postgres (>= 9.1) activesupport (4.2.9) i18n (~> 0.7) minitest (~> 5.1) thread_safe (~> 0.3, >= 0.3.4) tzinfo (~> 1.1) arel (6.0.4) builder (3.2.3) coffee-rails (4.1.1) coffee-script (>= 2.2.0) railties (>= 4.0.0, < 5.1.x) coffee-script (2.4.1) coffee-script-source execjs coffee-script-source (1.12.2) concurrent-ruby (1.0.5-java) erubis (2.7.0) execjs (2.7.0) ffi (1.9.18-java) globalid (0.4.0) activesupport (>= 4.2.0) i18n (0.8.6) jbuilder (2.7.0) activesupport (>= 4.2.0) multi_json (>= 1.2) jdbc-postgres (9.4.1206) jquery-rails (4.3.1) rails-dom-testing (>= 1, < 3) railties (>= 4.2.0) thor (>= 0.14, < 2.0) json (1.8.6-java) loofah (2.0.3) nokogiri (>= 1.5.9) mail (2.6.6) mime-types (>= 1.16, < 4) mime-types (3.1) mime-types-data (~> 3.2015) mime-types-data (3.2016.0521) minitest (5.10.2) multi_json (1.12.1) nokogiri (1.8.0-java) rack (1.6.8) rack-test (0.6.3) rack (>= 1.0) rails (4.2.9) actionmailer (= 4.2.9) actionpack (= 4.2.9) actionview (= 4.2.9) activejob (= 4.2.9) activemodel (= 4.2.9) activerecord (= 4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) bundler (>= 1.3.0, < 2.0) railties (= 4.2.9) sprockets-rails rails-deprecated_sanitizer (1.0.3) activesupport (>= 4.2.0.alpha) rails-dom-testing (1.0.8) activesupport (>= 4.2.0.beta, < 5.0) nokogiri (~> 1.6) rails-deprecated_sanitizer (>= 1.0.1) rails-html-sanitizer (1.0.3) loofah (~> 2.0) railties (4.2.9) actionpack (= 4.2.9) activesupport (= 4.2.9) rake (>= 0.8.7) thor (>= 0.18.1, < 2.0) rake (12.0.0) rb-fsevent (0.10.2) rb-inotify (0.9.10) ffi (>= 0.5.0, < 2) rdoc (4.3.0) sass (3.5.1) sass-listen (~> 4.0.0) sass-listen (4.0.0) rb-fsevent (~> 0.9, >= 0.9.4) rb-inotify (~> 0.9, >= 0.9.7) sass-rails (5.0.6) railties (>= 4.0.0, < 6) sass (~> 3.1) sprockets (>= 2.8, < 4.0) sprockets-rails (>= 2.0, < 4.0) tilt (>= 1.1, < 3) sdoc (0.4.2) json (~> 1.7, >= 1.7.7) rdoc (~> 4.0) sprockets (3.7.1) concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0) rack (> 1, < 3) sprockets-rails (3.2.0) actionpack (>= 4.0) activesupport (>= 4.0) sprockets (>= 3.0.0) therubyrhino (2.0.4) therubyrhino_jar (>= 1.7.3) therubyrhino_jar (1.7.6) thor (0.19.4) thread_safe (0.3.6-java) tilt (2.0.7) turbolinks (5.0.1) turbolinks-source (~> 5) turbolinks-source (5.0.3) tzinfo (1.2.3) thread_safe (~> 0.1) tzinfo-data (1.2017.2) tzinfo (>= 1.0.0) uglifier (3.2.0) execjs (>= 0.3.0, < 3)

PLATFORMS java

DEPENDENCIES activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter coffee-rails (~> 4.1.0) jbuilder (~> 2.0) jquery-rails rails (= 4.2.9) sass-rails (~> 5.0) sdoc (~> 0.4.0) therubyrhino turbolinks tzinfo-data uglifier (>= 1.3.0)

BUNDLED WITH 1.15.1

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