Mongoid fails on ruby 1.9.3
heroku, mlab, mongodb, mongoid
Solution
Based on the stack trace it looks like the constructor for `mongo_uri` is being passed a null value. I'd check the following in your `mongoid.yml`:
- it's in the right place / the argument to `load!` points to the right place
- it's configured correctly
- if it refers to any environment variables (e.g. `MONGOLAB_URI` for the MongoLab Heroku add-on) that they're set in your environment
The relevant lines from mongo_uri.rb:49, where the exception is being thrown:
# Create the new uri from the provided string.
#
# @example Create the new uri.
# MongoUri.new(uri)
#
# @param [ String ] string The uri string.
#
# @since 3.0.0
def initialize(string)
@match = string.match(URI)
end
Problem
So I'm playing around with mongo stuffs. Created a new heroku app, added a mongolab option to it, but every mongoid method fails. I googled around, and it looks like this issue was common with ruby prior to 1.9.3, but I'm running 1.9.3. Here's the simplest failing sample: ``` require 'sinatra' require 'mongoid' require 'json' require "sinatra/reloader" if development? Mongoid.load!("mongoid.yml") class Company include Mongoid::Document field :code, type: String field :sector, type: String field :share_id, type: Integer field :jse_code, type: Integer end get '/' do "Hello" end get '/company' do Company.exists? end ``` Wether I run this locally (against the mongolab db) or on heroku, I get the same kind of error: ``` 12:22:33 web.1 | NoMethodError - undefined method `match' for nil:NilClass: 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions/mongo_uri.rb:49:in `initialize' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions/factory.rb:103:in `new' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions/factory.rb:103:in `parse' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions/factory.rb:62:in `create_session' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions/factory.rb:43:in `default' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions.rb:109:in `default' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions.rb:378:in `__session__' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions.rb:213:in `mongo_session' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/sessions.rb:157:in `collection' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/contextual/mongo.rb:216:in `initialize' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/contextual.rb:47:in `new' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/contextual.rb:47:in `create_context' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/contextual.rb:30:in `context' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/contextual.rb:20:in `rescue in exists?' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/contextual.rb:18:in `exists?' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/mongoid-3.0.13/lib/mongoid/finders.rb:43:in `exists?' 12:22:33 web.1 | app.rb:22:in `block in <main>' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1265:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1265:in `block in compile!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:835:in `[]' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:835:in `block (3 levels) in route!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:851:in `route_eval' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:835:in `block (2 levels) in route!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:872:in `block in process_route' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:870:in `catch' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:870:in `process_route' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:834:in `block in route!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:833:in `each' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:833:in `route!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:936:in `dispatch!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:769:in `block in call!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:921:in `block in invoke' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:921:in `catch' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:921:in `invoke' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:769:in `call!' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:755:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/xss_header.rb:22:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/path_traversal.rb:16:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/json_csrf.rb:17:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/base.rb:47:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/xss_header.rb:22:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/logger.rb:15:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/commonlogger.rb:20:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:136:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:129:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/head.rb:9:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:21:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/showexceptions.rb:21:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:99:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1389:in `block in call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1471:in `synchronize' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1389:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/thin-1.5.0/lib/thin/connection.rb:81:in `block in pre_process' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/thin-1.5.0/lib/thin/connection.rb:79:in `catch' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/thin-1.5.0/lib/thin/connection.rb:79:in `pre_process' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/eventmachine-1.0.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:1037:in `call' 12:22:33 web.1 | /Users/sdx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/eventmachine-1.0.0/lib/eventmachine.rb:1037:in `block in spawn_threadpool' 12:22:33 web.1 | 127.0.0.1 - - [21/Nov/2012 12:22:33] "GET /__sinatra__/500.png HTTP/1.1" 200 31056 0.0062 ``` What am I doing wrong ? UPDATED here's my mongoid.yml: ``` production: sessions: default: uri: <%= ENV['MONGOLAB_URI'] %> options: skip_version_check: true safe: true development: sessions: default: uri: <%= ENV['MONGOLAB_URI'] %> ```