#223 ✓resolved
Nate Wiger

Infinite loop in will_paginate with has_many :through

Reported by Nate Wiger | May 22nd, 2008 @ 12:04 AM

We are having the infinite loop with will_paginate as well. This happens with the following set of associations:

   class LobbyChannel < ActiveRecord::Base
     has_many :lobby_channel_players
     has_many :players, :through => :lobby_channel_players
   end

   class LobbyChannelPlayer < ActiveRecord::Base
     belongs_to :lobby_channel
     belongs_to :player
   end

   class Player < ActiveRecord::Base
     has_many :lobby_channel_players
     has_many :lobby_channels, :through => :lobby_channel_players
   end

The find that triggers it is:

    lobby_channel = find(channel_id, :include => [ :players ])

If we leave off the :include, then the issue is not triggered.

The bug we see is Mongrel shoots to 100% CPU in an infinite loop. When you kill the thread, you get this call stack (ignore the "Error reference", that's something our app adds):

[Error reference: 1211400279]     /usr/sdod-rails2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.4/lib/mongrel.rb:221:in `method_missing_without_paginate'
[Error reference: 1211400279]     vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:164:in `method_missing'
[Error reference: 1211400279]     /usr/sdod-rails2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2.9216/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb:138:in `method_missing_without_paginate'
[Error reference: 1211400279]     vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:164:in `method_missing'
[Error reference: 1211400279]     /usr/sdod-rails2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2.9216/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb:138:in `method_missing_without_paginate'
[Error reference: 1211400279]     vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:164:in `method_missing'
[Error reference: 1211400279]     /usr/sdod-rails2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2.9216/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb:138:in `method_missing_without_paginate'

Please let me know if I can help testing this in any way.

Thanks,
Nate

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Mislav

    Mislav June 11th, 2008 @ 02:13 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “open”
    • Assigned user changed from “Chris Wanstrath” to “Mislav”

    See #215 and #220. Are you using older version of will_paginate? The newest version is "mislav-will_paginate" 2.3.2 from http://gems.github.com/

  • Sidu Ponnappa

    Sidu Ponnappa July 19th, 2008 @ 11:40 PM

    Confirming this bug for any collection actions (each, select, collect, detect...) for a has many through collection.

    SystemStackError: stack level too deep

    /trunk/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:164:in `method_missing_without_paginate'

    /trunk/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:164:in `method_missing'

  • vamsee

    vamsee July 20th, 2008 @ 08:23 AM

    Actually, this problem went away after I updated to mislav-will_paginate. Sidu, I suggest you try the same.

  • Mislav

    Mislav August 9th, 2008 @ 11:03 AM

    Nate Wiger: are you using any plugins that hook into ActiveRecord?

  • David Eisinger

    David Eisinger August 25th, 2008 @ 04:21 PM

    I was experiencing this behavior. Upgrading my app from 2.0.2 to 2.1.0 fixed it for me.

  • FotoVerite

    FotoVerite September 20th, 2008 @ 09:10 AM

    • Tag changed from bug, will_paginate to bug, will_paginate

    Experiencing this also. Using ActiveScaffold so that's probably where the bug is. Why it's even being called for an create method is beyond me though.

  • Mislav

    Mislav October 7th, 2008 @ 01:19 PM

    • State changed from “open” to “hold”

    I have tried to reproduce several of these failures (tests in commit de98ac9), but without success. I tested with Rails versions 1.2.6, 2.0.4 and 2.1.0.

    This led me to believe that you guys are experiencing issues because of 3rd party plugins that mix into ActiveRecord obtrusively.

    So, in the next reports I expect you to paste me a list of libraries/plugins you're using. Also make sure that you're on the latest version of "mislav-will_paginate" before submitting a comment.

    Thanks

  • Mislav

    Mislav January 10th, 2013 @ 03:22 PM

    • State changed from “hold” to “resolved”

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