Rails eventmachine not initialized evma_install_oneshot_timer

Question

I'm using Rails 4.1.1, Thin 1.6.2, Redis 2.8.9 (with Hiredis driver), and faye-rails gem.

I use faye-rails to subscribe to changes on a few models, and I use Redis for other (unrelated) stuff.

When I tried to call create on a faye-observed model (let's say Apple), it throws an error like this:

2.1.1 :001 > Apple.create
   (0.1ms)  BEGIN
  SQL (0.4ms)  INSERT INTO `apples` (`created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES ('2014-06-01 17:26:54', '2014-06-01 17:26:54')
   (7.6ms)  ROLLBACK
RuntimeError: eventmachine not initialized: evma_install_oneshot_timer
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:323:in `add_oneshot_timer'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:323:in `add_timer'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/em/timers.rb:12:in `initialize'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/em/deferrable.rb:173:in `new'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/em/deferrable.rb:173:in `timeout'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/envelope.rb:11:in `initialize'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:357:in `new'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:357:in `transport_send'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:346:in `block in send'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/extensible.rb:23:in `call'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/extensible.rb:23:in `pipe_through_extensions'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:343:in `send'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:92:in `handshake'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:131:in `connect'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-1.0.1/lib/faye/protocol/client.rb:270:in `publish'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/faye-rails-2.0.0/lib/faye-rails/controller.rb:45:in `publish'
... 27 levels...
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:219:in `within_new_transaction'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:211:in `transaction'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `transaction'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:326:in `with_transaction_returning_status'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:268:in `block in save'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:283:in `rollback_active_record_state!'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:267:in `save'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.1/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:34:in `create'
    from (irb):1
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:90:in `start'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:69:in `console'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:40:in `run_command!'
    from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
    from bin/rails:4:in `require'
    from bin/rails:4:in `<main>'

Notice the RuntimeError: eventmachine not initialized: evma_install_oneshot_timer.

The error alternates between that, and ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 2..3).

After some time digging, the error only occurs when I'm trying to save an observed Model.

Any help would be gladly appreciated.

Kwan

Do your controller extends FayeRails::Controller? Is your FayeRails::Middleware in use? – Havard

Hi. Can you check in console EM.reactor_running? – Risinger

Answer 1

I use this code with Faye

$faye = Faye::Client.new('http://localhost/faye')
class Wrapper
    def self.publish(text)
       run_event_machine
        $faye.publish("/base", text)
    end

    def self.run_event_machine
        Thread.new { EM.run } unless EM.reactor_running?
        Thread.pass until EM.reactor_running?
    end
end

and when needs to send data just:

Wrapper.publush("the truth is out there")

Fatal

Answer 2

You are trying to call Faye (and EventMachine) from rails console. Rails console doesn't run EventMachine, only webserver does. If you need it working you should use: Faye.ensure_reactor_running! in rails console or rake tasks.

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