Hey Chaz,
for rails apps,
config/initializers/session_store.rb usually has a secret key
ActionController::Base.session = {
:key => '_charles_session',
:secret => 'XXXXXX'
}
you can get a good session key by running:
rake secret
Create the file and see how it goes.
--Keenan
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Charles M Magid wrote:
> Thank you very much in advance for any and all help on this.
>
> Symptom:
>
> The app http://hope-for-the-future.heroku.com/ returns 'App failed
> to start' on load.
>
> See Pastie: http://pastie.org/815793 for trace
> github: http://github.com/trevorturk/static See deployment to
> heroku 2/3 of the way down the page
>
> Error message:
>
> cookie_store.rb:163:in `ensure_session_key': A key is required
> to write a cookie containing the session data. Use
> config.action_controller.session = { :key =>
> "_myapp_session", :secret => "some secret phrase" } in config/
> environment.rb (ArgumentError)
>
>
> Briefly:
>
> I am using 'static' CMS by trevorturk / static on github and using
> the heroku deployment instructions.
>
> The app works locally so I hoped it would just deploy, even though
> there were directions on deploying to heroku I didn't groke, ie:
>
> ...
> mate config/config.yml # configure the production environment
> rake s3:create
> rake heroku:config
> ...
> heroku rake db:schema:load
> ...
>
> Above may be a red herring.
>
>
> Seems like the following lines need to be changed, but to what and
> where is the doc on this?
>
> environment.rb has the following lines:
>
> config.action_controller.session = {
> :key => CONFIG['session_key'],
> :secret => CONFIG['session_secret']
> }
>
> Is this a red herring?
>
> Thank you in advance again, your most appreciative booster.
>
> Charles Magid
>
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