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Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

Lindsay Holmwood — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:30:09 -0000

@grempe: yeah, that's right, I mean rack.rb :-) (although katz refers to boot.rb, so eh)

Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

grempe — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:52 -0000

I think you mean 'rack.rb' and not 'boot.rb'. Copying a newly generated rack.rb into mis-behaving app solves the problem. Thanks for helping me solve this. :-)

Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

auxesis — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:56:07 -0000

They're generated when you create a new app with merb-gen. Every app has its own scripts for bootstrapping.

I had previously generated the app with 0.9.2 and then upgraded it manually. Documentation is pretty scarce, and there wasn't any mention of the boot.rb fix.

Remember, Merb is pre-1.0!

Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

James — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:47:13 -0000

Why are these static rb files not in a library somewhere?

Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

auxesis — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:05:42 -0000

@katz: thanks for the pointer! I couldn't find any explanation on the cause of the problem, but that makes a lot of sense.

Re: Odd behavior when serving static content with Merb

Yehuda Katz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:35:26 -0000

@lindsay this was a change in Merb 0.9.3. However, old apps (generated with the 0.9.2 generator) had the old version of boot.rb that wasn't compatible. The best thing to do is copy out the boot.rb from a freshly generated app.