• Tue Jan 17

    Fixing Pow ‘unknown process error’

    If you’re running a Rails app locally on pow and get an ‘unknown process error’ , I’ve found the following to be quite a reliable fix:

    1. Try restarting pow

    $ touch tmp/restart.txt

    If that doesn’t work it’s likely something is broken in your code. Sometimes pow doesn’t catch basic syntax errors.

    2. Run the native Rails server

    $ rails s

    This should output the errors (if any) from your code.