After upgrading to Ruby on Rails 1.1.6 (with a one-day 1.1.5 intermezzo), we’ve found a strange error in our Recykl.com application. Most of the application behaved normally, but email sending got broken with the following error:
The error only occurred in our production environment on Linux – I could not reproduce it anywhere else. 🙁 Nothing in the application or server configuration had changed, so the problem had to be in the upgraded Rails – I compared the installed gems and among other things found the following difference in the actionmailer package: private_class_method :new #:nodoc: – cattr_accessor :template_root @@server_settings = {
This change in the inheritance scoping is not very well documented, but I’ve decided to anyway re-define the standard template root explicitly for our NotificationMailer class: And, tada! It works!
ActionView::ActionViewError (No rhtml, rxml, rjs or delegate template found for notification_email):
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:389:in `find_template_extension_for’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:323:in `pick_template_extension’
/vendor/plugins/globalize/lib/globalize/rails/action_view.rb:29:in `locate_globalize_path’
/vendor/plugins/globalize/lib/globalize/rails/action_view.rb:10:in `render_file’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_view/base.rb:274:in `render’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:427:in `render’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:422:in `render_message’
/vendor/plugins/globalize/lib/globalize/rails/action_mailer.rb:110:in `render_localized_normal_template’
/vendor/plugins/globalize/lib/globalize/rails/action_mailer.rb:98:in `render_localized_normal_template’
/vendor/plugins/globalize/lib/globalize/rails/action_mailer.rb:47:in `create!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:331:in `initialize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:290:in `method_missing’
/app/controllers/home_controller.rb:123:in `notify’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:941:in `perform_action_without_filters’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:368:in `perform_action_without_benchmark’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform_action’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:408:in `process_without_filters’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in `process_without_session_management_support’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in `process’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:150:in `process_request’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:54:in `process!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:600:in `each_cgi’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in `process!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:23:in `process!’
/recykl/public/dispatch.fcgi:36
— /ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.3/lib/action_mailer/base.rb 2006-07-01 10:53:54.500000000 +0200
+++ /ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb 2006-08-11 08:46:36.687500000 +0200
@@ -5,20 +5,92 @@
@@ -127,7 +191,7 @@
+ class_inheritable_accessor :template_root
cattr_accessor :logger
— /recykl/app/models/notification_mailer.rb (revision 122)
+++ /recykl/app/models/notification_mailer.rb (revision 123)
@@ -11,15 +11,18 @@
class NotificationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
+ # for some reason, after upgrade to Rails 1.1.6 this is needed in production for correct operation, although earlier it was not
+ NotificationMailer.template_root = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../views'
+
def confirm(notification)
@subject = 'Notification regarding'.t
I had the same problem today (also with Rails 1.1.6). I can confirm that the solution suggested in this article works.
Did you report this problem to the Rails developers?
Your my new best friend!!… at least until the next time I kind find out why something is broken.
You rock buddy. I started with rails 1.1.6 and I had no clue why it is failing! Thanks a ton for making my day 🙂
thank you, good man. this helped me too 🙂
I have this problem too, thanks. Might even be a ruby bug with inconsistent scoping behaviour between linux and os x (where it seems to work fine)… or just some kind of platform-specific bug deep in rails internals… :-/
You should file a Rails ticket anyway!
Problem exists in 1.2.3 too on OS X Server 10.3.9. Your technique fixes it though. I’m much less frustrated now…
Thanks!