RAILS: "session contains objects whose class definition is not available."

Question

Session contains objects whose class definition isn\'t available. Remember to require the classes for all objects kept in the session 

I am trying to integrate http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic for authentication into my rails application. I have described all the steps mentioned in the documentation. Now I seem to get this error when I press the controller. Looks like I'm missing something obvious.

stacktrace

 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:77:in `stale_session_check!' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:61:in `load!' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/session/abstract_store.rb:28:in `[]' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/authlogic-2.1.3/lib/authlogic/session/session.rb:48:in `session_credentials' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/authlogic-2.1.3/lib/authlogic/session/session.rb:33:in `persist_by_session' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:178:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:178:in `evaluate_method' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:166:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:93:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:92:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:92:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:92:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:276:in `run_callbacks' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/authlogic-2.1.3/lib/authlogic/session/callbacks.rb:79:in `persist' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/authlogic-2.1.3/lib/authlogic/session/persistence.rb:55:in `persisting?' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/authlogic-2.1.3/lib/authlogic/session/persistence.rb:39:in `find' /Users/suryagaddipati/myprojects/groceryplanner/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:12:in `current_user_session' /Users/suryagaddipati/myprojects/groceryplanner/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:17:in `current_user' /Users/suryagaddipati/myprojects/groceryplanner/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:30:in `require_no_user' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:178:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:178:in `evaluate_method' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:166:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:225:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:629:in `run_before_filters' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:615:in `call_filters' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:610:in `perform_action_without_benchmark' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in `ms' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:10:in `realtime' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in `ms' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:160:in `perform_action_without_flash' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/flash.rb:146:in `perform_action' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:532:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:532:in `process_without_filters' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:606:in `process' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:391:in `process' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:386:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb:437:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:87:in `dispatch' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:121:in `_call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:130:in `build_middleware_stack' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:29:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:29:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:34:in `cache' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:9:in `cache' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:28:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:361:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/string_coercion.rb:25:in `call' /Users/suryagaddipati/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/head.rb:9:in `call' 

Answer 1

How do you keep your sessions? It looks like it is trying to load an old session (which you used before authlogic or another class that no longer exists).

Deleting all your old sessions (browser cookies if you store the session in cookies) may fix the problem.

Answer 2

Browser cookies Are you going to tell all registered users about this ?:-)

What helped me: https://gist.github.com/1504625 . Basically, change one character in config/initializers/secret_token.rb , restart the server and you will install.