By beydogan
I have a Rails app deployed to Digitalocean App Platform but I cannot see a way to access to the rails console. If I go to “Console” on the web page and execute the console command the output is an error:
integer 2558122467 too big to convert to `int' (RangeError)
How do I access rails console for an app on App Platform? This is a deal breaker for me to not to use this service.
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Hello @beydogan
You can try to run the following command in the console to start it:
rails c -e p
If the issue persists then please feel free to contact support.
Best, Dikshith
I have the same issue while trying to launch any rails command. Have you found a workaround ?
Thanks,
Adrien
I believe this is related to the “ulimit” setting for the number of open files. The App Platform sets this limit to “unlimited”, but some gems try to convert this to a number, which fails.
To resolve this temporarily in the web-based console, so you’re able to open a Rails console, simply set the ulimit to a lower value, and fire up your console as normal.
ulimit -n 500000
rails c
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