5.2. Rails Applications

When debugging Rails applications, do not run the Rails console as root as some OpenShift API calls are cached under /var/www/openshift/broker/tmp/cache and are owned by the user who runs the console. When the cache expires, the broker attempts to invalidate the cache. Since the broker runs as the apache user it is unable to clear the root-owned files and returns 500 errors.

To avoid this problem, run the Rails console as the apache user:

# su --shell=/bin/bash -l apache
$ cd /var/www/openshift/console
$ ./script/rails console production