Weird auto-complete production problem in Rails 2.3.2

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Hello.

ruby 1.8.6 (patchlevel 111) rails 2.3.2 Windows XP Professional

I am getting quite a weird problem. I have several auto-complete fields in a page. When I run the code in development mode everything works but when the application runs in production mode one and only one of the fields does not auto-complete anymore.

The database being used is the same in both cases (I'm just replacing 'development:' and 'production:' in database.yml whenever I change environments) so a data problem is out of the question.

I have looked and compared code between different auto-complete fields and everything is identical except for the field names. Controller code does not seem to be a problem either. Checked logs and I can't see anything obviously wrong either. Searched the web but found nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Pepe

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Still trying to figure this out. Some more info:

The auto-complete field that does not work depends on the values entered in 2 other auto-comple fields. In development the 2 fields are being updated correctly but not when the application runs in production mode mode.

Those values are stored in session variables and I have read that there are changes as how sessions behave with 2.3.2. Any ideas what might be going on?

Thanks a lot.

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Found a hack?

I looked into the environments folder and compared development vs. production. I found this line:

config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false

I changed it to 'true' and the application now works. Any kind soul that could explain this to me? I'm not really a Rails expert.

Thanks

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pepe wrote:

Found a hack?

I looked into the environments folder and compared development vs. production. I found this line:

config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false

I changed it to 'true' and the application now works. Any kind soul that could explain this to me? I'm not really a Rails expert.

AWDWR(3rd), p 686 says:

The default setting of true means that all exceptions will display error and backtrace information in the browser. Set this to false in production to stop users from seeing this information.

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Thanks for the explanation, but I was looking more towards of why the application works after changing that setting, which should have nothing to do about how sessions work, which I believe to be the real problem.

I have noticed that when auto-complete fields are used and vaulues selected the session variables I store those values in work fine and contain data but when I change to production those session variables are not being updated.

I am using one controller only, if that means anything.

Thanks.