"missing attribute: state" when state attribute is not included in the query about transitions

[troessner]

Can you give me an example model and corresponding query to reproduce this?

[davout]

http://pastie.org/private/n3r0focjcdges7durjog
The state machine is defined at line 85, the failing method at 160.

[davout]

It fails here.

transitions (0.1.5) lib/active_model/transitions.rb:66:in `set_initial_state'
activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:405:in `_run__3282874665777803106__initialize__1090282513155503724__callbacks'
activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:405:in `__run_callback'
activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:385:in `_run_initialize_callbacks'
activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:81:in `run_callbacks'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/base.rb:523:in `init_with'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/inheritance.rb:68:in `instantiate'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/querying.rb:38:in `block (2 levels) in find_by_sql'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/querying.rb:38:in `collect!'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/querying.rb:38:in `block in find_by_sql'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/explain.rb:40:in `logging_query_plan'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/querying.rb:37:in `find_by_sql'
newrelic_rpm (3.5.6.46) lib/new_relic/agent/method_tracer.rb:491:in `block in find_by_sql_with_trace_ActiveRecord_self_name_find_by_sql'
newrelic_rpm (3.5.6.46) lib/new_relic/agent/method_tracer.rb:240:in `trace_execution_scoped'
newrelic_rpm (3.5.6.46) lib/new_relic/agent/method_tracer.rb:486:in `find_by_sql_with_trace_ActiveRecord_self_name_find_by_sql'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/relation.rb:171:in `exec_queries'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/relation.rb:160:in `block in to_a'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/explain.rb:40:in `logging_query_plan'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/relation.rb:159:in `to_a'
activerecord (3.2.12) lib/active_record/relation/finder_methods.rb:159:in `all'
app/models/trade_order.rb:161:in `get_orders'

[troessner]

Thanks for the report, I'll look into this as soon as I can.

[maser]

This was broken in bf5d2b6 by adding Mongoid support. Using respond_to? does not work as the state and state= methods still exist even when the attribute was not loaded. I would fix it, but I don’t know how to do that without breaking Mongoid support.

We now just use 0.1.4.

[troessner]

I just reverted: #68
and released 0.1.6.
Please let me know if that works for you guys.

[davout]

Hey, thanks a lot, looks like it's working.
Except now my tests are throwing

WARNING: Transitions::Machine#new_update or Transitions::Machine#new_initialize already defined. This can possibly break ActiveModel::Transitions

multiple times.

[troessner]

Not sure why you get that but this was added in a recent pull request:

https://github.com/troessner/transitions/pull/73/files#L1R47

The same here for me:

WARNING: Transitions::Machine#new_update or Transitions::Machine#new_initialize already defined. This can possibly break ActiveModel::Transitions.
WARNING: Transitions::Machine#new_update or Transitions::Machine#new_initialize already defined. This can possibly break ActiveModel::Transitions.
...................................................................................................................*.....................................................................................................

I have a more or less vanilla rails app - seems like this happens because more than one model use transitions, but that is just a shot in the blue from my side.

@cmw do you see what's going wrong here?

[davout]

@troessner yeah, a bunch of my models include AM::T

[maser]

I get a nice SystemStackError with 0.1.6:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transitions-0.1.6/lib/active_model/transitions.rb:36:in `old_initialize': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transitions-0.1.6/lib/active_model/transitions.rb:36:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transitions-0.1.6/lib/transitions.rb:45:in `new'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transitions-0.1.6/lib/transitions.rb:45:in `state_machine'
        from /vagrant/rails_app/app/models/news_feed.rb:15

[troessner]

@maser interesting. So I guess you'll stick with 0.1.4 for now, right?
Can you provide me with a test case on how to reproduce that behaviour?

Besides that, it seems like this error was introduced with: #73

@cmw any ideas on that?

[troessner]

@maser can you do me a favor and narrow it down for me a litte?

This means:

• Clone this repo
• Adjust your Gemfile to use your local instead of the installed one
• Check out commit

commit b2e64fe
Merge: ab8e1bb 98dc77d
Author: Timo Rößner [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 31 03:08:15 2013 -0800

and check if it's working again.

• Then check out

commit 1304a15
Author: Christian M. Weis [email protected]
Date: Fri Feb 1 19:06:03 2013 +0100
Support for configurable column names

and see if it fails.

[maser]

@troessner Yes, we are using 0.1.4 for now. b2e64fe and 1304a15 work as you expected them to, so your fix works. Thanks!

There is a new arning, though: lib/transitions/version.rb:2: warning: already initialized constant VERSION.

[troessner]

Wait, what? Now I am confused - from your error report I thought that 1304a15 introduced a bug which you were experiencing now. So I was expecting that b2e64fe works for you but 1304a15 not. So both those commits work for you?

[troessner]

Also from what you said I am not sure if this still affects the current version. Does

so your fix works.

mean that it works for you now with v 0.1.6? If not, can you tell me how to reproduce this error? Because I'm using 0.1.6 in multiple rails apps and have no problems so far.

[maser]

@troessner Sorry, I wasn’t clear enough. b2e64fe works, 1304a15 does not, neither does 0.1.6.

I can try to reproduce the error in a clean app tomorrow.

[troessner]

b2e64fe works, 1304a15 does not, neither does 0.1.6.

Ah, good to know.

I can try to reproduce the error in a clean app tomorrow.

That would be very helpful, thanks!

[maser]

I cannot reproduce the problem in a new Rails application. I’ll have to test if there is an incompatibility with some other part of the application (it is large enough for that to take some time though).

[cmw]

The warning

WARNING: Transitions::Machine#new_update or Transitions::Machine#new_initialize already defined. This can possibly break ActiveModel::Transitions

just means that AM::T got loaded more than once and the condition prevented the aliasing block from producing endless loops.

I only included the warning because it's conceivable, that Transitions::Machine#new_initialize could be defined before the module is added. This will potentially break something, so, if things don't seem to work right, this is a pointer to where the problem might be.

[davout]

@cmw I get the warning multiple times each time Rails is loaded.

I have multiple models with state machines, all the models include ìnclude ActiveModel::Transitions`.
Tried

ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
  ActiveRecord::Base.send(:extend, ActiveModel::Transitions)
end

as a workaround, but apparently that fails too because the columns are not yet defined on the model at that point and AM::T tries to find the state column.

Trying to extend AR later in the lifecycle doesn't work either as the state_machine call fails inside the model rightfully complaining that the method is undefined.

[troessner]

@cmw I see your point, however this warning can get annoying pretty quick - how about removing this warning and use some method name we're sure nobody else uses, like new_transitions_initialize?

[davout]

@troessner would that solve the warning popping when AM::T is included multiple times in different models ?

[cmw]

We wouldn't necessarily have to display the warning in that case (though we still need the check to protect from endless loop). Not a bad idea, though of course we can't really know that nobody uses a method with that name.

[troessner]

@troessner would that solve the warning popping when AM::T is included multiple times in different models ?

Yes.

We wouldn't necessarily have to display the warning in that case (though we still need the check to protect from endless loop).

Yeah, then let's drop it.

Not a bad idea, though of course we can't really know that nobody uses a method with that name.

True, but I'd say the chances are so low that we should go with it ..:)

Do you have the time to whip up a pull request? I can do it as well but unfortunately I'm pretty loaded for the next few days.

[cmw]

@troessner You got it :)

[troessner]

Alright, I just released 1.0.7 with all the latest and greatest..;)

@davout the warnings should be gone now
@maser please let me know if you have still that SystemStackError with that version or if this problem in general just has gone away - and if so, please open up a dedicated issue.

-> Closing this.

[davout]

Works perfect. Thanks a lot!

[maser]

@troessner I still get it, but I won’t open an issue before I know how to reproduce this.

[tony-pizza]

Not sure if I should open a new issue, but I'm getting this again.

ruby 2.0.0
rails 4.0.0 + postgres 9.2
transitions (0.1.9 f8a0b94)

2.0.0 (main):0 > a = Auction.select('id').last
  Auction Load (0.6ms)  SELECT id FROM "auctions" ORDER BY auctions.ends_at DESC LIMIT 1
ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: state
from /Users/Ian/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bundler/gems/rails-c119faa86458/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/read.rb:89:in `block (2 levels) in read_attribute'