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rails server fails when the tmp dir is missing

#3907

I'm getting the following error when running rails server in a Rails 3 beta app with a missing tmp directory:

=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.0.0.beta application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
Exiting
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in `initialize': No such file or directory - tmp/pids/server.pid (Errno::ENOENT)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in `open'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in `write_pid'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:154:in `start'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta/lib/rails/commands/server.rb:49:in `start'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:83:in `start'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta/lib/rails/commands.rb:39
    from /home/daniel/Projects/dorms/script/rails:10:in `require'
    from /home/daniel/Projects/dorms/script/rails:10

It seems that the tmp dir is not created automatically if it's missing.

Reported by Daniel Schierbeck · February 9th, 2010 @ 12:26 PM

State: resolved
Milestone: 3.0.2
Assigned to: José Valim José Valim
Importance: High

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  1. Merrick
    Merrick

    I'm having this same issue. Anyone find any resolve on it?

    February 27th, 2010 @ 06:28 AM

  2. Merrick
    Merrick

    => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.0.beta application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server Exiting
    /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in initialize': No such file or directory - tmp/pids/server.pid (Errno::ENOENT)

    from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in `open'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in `write_pid'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:154:in `start'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta/lib/rails/commands/server.rb:49:in `start'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:83:in `start'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta/lib/rails/commands.rb:39
from /Users/Merrick/Work/Arkitekt/Projects/Campaign Arkitekt/campaignarkitekt.com/script/rails:10:in `require'
from /Users/Merrick/Work/Arkitekt/Projects/Campaign Arkitekt/campaignarkitekt.com/script/rails:10

    February 28th, 2010 @ 02:38 AM

  3. Petros Amiridis
    Petros Amiridis

    I am not sure it's the best way, but until the bug is resolved I do the following as a workaround:

    I go to script/rails file and add the following lines right after the first two lines:

    
+require "fileutils"
+FileUtils.mkdir_p 'tmp'
+FileUtils.mkdir_p 'tmp/cache'
+FileUtils.mkdir_p 'tmp/pids'
+FileUtils.mkdir_p 'tmp/sessions'
+FileUtils.mkdir_p 'tmp/sockets'

    March 1st, 2010 @ 05:38 PM

  4. José Valim
    José Valim
    • Assigned user set to Yehuda Katz (wycats)
    • Milestone cleared.

    March 3rd, 2010 @ 08:47 AM

  5. Ravinder Rana
    Ravinder Rana

    Attached is a patch to fix the issue. Basically, what we need to do is create the "tmp" directories before
    starting the server, the way it was done in rails 2.3.*

    There's no tests for this yet as i was not able to figure out where the existing test class for "railties/lib/rails/commands/server.rb" is :( let me know if it exist, i'll add the necessary tests.

    March 30th, 2010 @ 07:10 PM

  6. José Valim
    José Valim
    • State changed from new to open
    • Assigned user changed from Yehuda Katz (wycats) to José Valim

    Ravinder, thanks for the patch! Before applying it, I need to ask you to do two changes:

    1) Can you please create the patch using git format-patch? This will keep you as patch author. More information in the contributors guide: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/sending-patches

    2) RAILS_ROOT is deprecated. So instead of:

    File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'tmp', dir_to_make)

    You could do:

    Rails.root.join('tmp', dir_to_make)

    That's it. Unfortunately there are no tests for rails/commands/server.

    March 30th, 2010 @ 11:18 PM

  7. Ravinder Rana
    Ravinder Rana

    Creating a new patch as per Jose suggestions.

    March 31st, 2010 @ 11:04 AM

  8. Repository
    Repository
    • State changed from open to resolved

    March 31st, 2010 @ 03:05 PM

  9. José Valim
    José Valim

    Thanks for the patch Ravinder!

    March 31st, 2010 @ 03:06 PM

  10. Jeremy Kemper
    Jeremy Kemper
    • Milestone set to 3.0.2
    • Importance changed from to High

    October 15th, 2010 @ 11:01 PM