Ninject crashes on application start on appharbor

Question

I am using Ninject on my MVC 3 project deployed on appharbor. I noticed that I get an exception when the application is started, and it looks like something inside Ninject is th

Answer 1

The problem is not caused by Ninject. It is NewRelic.Agent.Core.AgentShim (used by AppHarbor) that is the culprit.

Although looking at the stacktrace, I think you can work around this problem by disabling Ninject's automatic extenison loading feature and load them manually.

var kernel = new StandardKernel(new NinjectSettings { LoadExtensions = false })
kernel.Load(new Ninject.Web.Mvc.MvcModule()); // same for all other extension modules

Answer 2

We've temporarily disabled the New Relic add-on and removed the New Relic agent from AppHarbor servers. We'll re-add New Relic once it's no longer causing problems for applications running on the platform.