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

Ran into this same issue and found out my config/initializers/secret_token.rb file was being ignored by git in my .gitignore file. Check out the config/initializers directory in your git source location and make sure the secret_token.rb file exists. If it doesn't edit your .gitignore file so that git will not ignore the secret_token.rb file and commit your changes (usually hidden - I used these simple commands to display hidden files on a mac http://osxdaily.com/2009/02/25/show-hidden-files-in-os-x/).