Strange "Application error"

rubyonrails-talk
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This error is driving me crazy. I would really appreciate if someone could shed some light on it.

I have a simple app with a couple models and a controller and a view. It starts out working fine, then I start getting these vague errors whenever I try to load anything except for the "Ruby on Rails: Welcome Aboard" page (it won't even display "action not found" etc, brand new fresh controllers don't work either)

Displayed in browser:

Application error, Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

From the log:

ActionView::TemplateError (uninitialized StringScanner object) on line #0 of app/views/admin/add_log.rhtml

Here's the full error: http://yachttom.com/misc/rails_error.txt

The really strange thing is if I make a fresh rails project and copy the exact same code into the new project, it works fine for awhile then does the exact same thing again.

Any idea what's going on? I might just be doing something stupid but I can't figure out what...

Thank you.

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This is more of a guess than anything else but I think you might a have a problem with your ruby setup. The error your getting "uninitialized StringScanner object" does not appear anywhere in rails and I've never seen a rhtml file fail on line #0.

On my machine that error message is in a binary file called strscan.bundle in this location: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.7.1/strscan.bundle

I would try reinstalling ruby possibly even compiling it yourself. You might also try posting this to the ruby list.

Aaron