Tracks

I have recently installed Tracks
(with much trial and error - as I am completely new to Ruby/Rails)

These are my stats:
Windows 7
Tracks 1.7.1
ruby 1.8.7
rails 2.3.5
mongrel 1.1.5
mongrel_service 0.3.4
Apache 2.2

I have almost (but not quite) got the installation working as desired.

I would really appreciated any help with the following (admittedly minor) problem:

Currently I can access tracks on http://localhost:3000/

What I would like is to access tracks on http://localhost/tracks

I found http://www.getontracks.org/forums/viewthread/284/ quite useful, but am still not there.

I have the following lines in my httpd.conf:

  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyPass /tracks/ http://localhost:3000/
  ProxyPassReverse /tracks/ http://localhost:3000/

These redirects work, but all the links/style sheets etc are http://localhost/* instead of http://localhost/tracks/*

I assumed that I simply needed to set: subdir: “/tracks” in site.yml, but when I do, my mongrel server no longer starts.

on executing
ruby script/server -e production

I get the following error:

=> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)
=> Rails 2.2.2 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with production environment…
Exiting
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load’: syntax error on line 25, col 1: ` subdir: “/tracks”’ (ArgumentError)

As I said, any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Update: I had a spurious space in front of “subdir”!

I think you added ” and ” to subdir. Try it without them.

Reinier, thanks for your suggestion.

Unfortunately I have still not managed to get the subdirectory to work. Combinations for the subdir that I have tried include:
subdir: /tracks
subdir: “/tracks”
subdir: “\tracks”
subdir: \tracks
subdir: “/tracks/”

Thank you to all the developers of this program! It is a fantastic program!

I know this is probably not the place to submit feature requests, but I think it would be great if there was the ability to have follow-on actions i.e. “Call Bob” only becomes visible after “Call Alice” has been completed.

in the upcoming release there are dependencies possible which will hide actions until another is finished. You can try it using the development version on github instead of 1.7.1.

I assume the error is there for all variants.

It should be subdir: “/tracks”, so you had it right in the first place. The syntax error means the site.yml is not correct yml syntax any more.

I believe it could be spurious spaces before subdir?

Could you copy it verbatim (except for the salt, just remove it or change it into XXXX)?

Thanks Reinier!

Yes I did indeed have a spurious space in front of subdir (I removed the #, but not the extra space).

Removing the space solved the problem.

I have now downloaded the development version, and unfortunately I have a new problem, but I will start a new thread, because it is unrelated to the subdir problem.