I'm trying to set up ruby on rails git deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk; "eb init" failing

Question

Running eb init from within my repo seems to go through the configuration options fine but at the end gives:

local variable 'fullpath' referenced before assignment

The config file does seem to be created OK within .elasticbeanstalk but "eb start" gives the same error:

local variable 'fullpath' referenced before assignment

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

More details: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_Ruby_rails.html

http://ruby.awsblog.com/post/Tx2AK2MFX0QHRIO/Deploying-Ruby-Applications-to-AWS-Elastic-Beanstalk-with-Git

Answer 1

This is most likely because it can't find the AWSDevTools folder on your system (judging from the source code). You should move the whole folder to the root, e.g.:

/AWSDevTools

Furthermore, there seems to be a bug in their core.py that prevents anything useful from being printed to the console.

However, you can modify your logconfig.json file and find these lines:

"root": {
    "level": "NONE"
},

Change it into this:

"root": {
    "level": "DEBUG"
},

When you run eb init or eb start again it will create a log file called eb-cli.log. Looking inside will tell you where it expects the folder.

See also this forum thread.