Ruby on Rails config.secret_token error

Question

I just started learning ruby on rails. I followed a lot of install examples, but when i ran the example am getting this error

A secret is required to generate an integri

Answer 1

This is an issue with rails version probably. I had this issue when I uninstalled Rails 4 and installed Rails 3. After checking rails -v and seeing that it was indeed Rails 3, I executed rails new myapp. For some reason the configuration file config/initializers/secret_token.rb had the "config.secret_key_base" variable defined, which appears to be how Rails 4 does it. I was able to fix it by changing it to "config.secret_token", which I believe is what Rails 3 uses.