# Latest.rss no longer works when using Babble
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [04.Январь.2018 13:40:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244 "2018-01-04T13:40:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 13:40:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/1 "2018-01-04T13:40:26Z")
The RSS feed URL for Latest posts (/latest.rss) no longer works, and now just shows a blank page. Looking at the error logs I found this:
```
ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass)
/var/www/discourse/app/views/list/list.rss.erb:20:in `block in _app_views_list_list_rss_erb___410690641174059981_69912794204760'
```
Here is the full text of the error log for this:
[https://pastebin.com/jDDqZ5ND](https://pastebin.com/jDDqZ5ND)
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 13:47:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/2 "2018-01-04T13:47:32Z")
Are You on the latest version?
Seems Specific to Your forum. Can’t repro this either on meta or on my own sandbox!
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:09:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/3 "2018-01-04T14:09:04Z")
I’ve been running the newest available version, currently at `v2.0.0.beta1 +4`. The issue has been ongoing for about a month or so. I do have a few plugins I use, but doubt they’re the cause:
```
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode-color.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert.git
- git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/retort
- git clone https://github.com/cpradio/discourse-plugin-checklist.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved.git
- git clone https://github.com/iunctis/discourse-formatting-toolbar.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-staff-notes.git
```
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:10:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/4 "2018-01-04T14:10:48Z")
> [@romdos](#):
>
> `- git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/retort`
`Shouldn't it be - git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/retort.git instead?`
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:11:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/5 "2018-01-04T14:11:43Z")
> [@itsbhanusharma](#):
>
> - git clone [GitHub - gdpelican/retort: A reactions plugin for Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/gdpelican/retort.git)
Good catch! I’ll change that now and rebuild..
Update: that wasn’t it.. Trying now with all plugins disabled.
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:35:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/6 "2018-01-04T14:35:52Z")
Same issue with all plugins disabled (except `docker_manager`). 😕
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:39:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/7 "2018-01-04T14:39:19Z")
Perhaps this is beyond my understanding now. I hope someone more experienced may be able to help You with a better solution.
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:52:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/8 "2018-01-04T14:52:38Z")
Looks like [this topic](https://forum.grangerhub.com/t/grangerhub-shoutbox/4354) is the cause of the issue.
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 14:58:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/9 "2018-01-04T14:58:03Z")
Indeed. I deleted that topic and things are working again! To anyone else having this issue, the topic in question was created by the Babble chat plugin, which creates a topic without a category.
@vinothkannans how did you determine that was the source of the issue?
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 15:05:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/10 "2018-01-04T15:05:09Z")
As per your error log one of your topic having `null` category value.
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 15:11:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/11 "2018-01-04T15:11:33Z")
@vinothkannans I must be blind, because I don’t see how that was discerned from the error log. What line number exactly in the error log is indicating this? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 15:14:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/12 "2018-01-04T15:14:58Z")
As per the first and second lines **`undefined method 'name' for nil:NilClass`**.
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### Author:  [@romdos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romdos)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 15:21:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/13 "2018-01-04T15:21:36Z")
I guess what I’m asking is: how would anyone know/guess/decipher what is wrong based on that (IMHO, totally ambiguous) error message, without deep knowledge of Discourse?
`undefined method 'name'` (Okay there’s a undefined method called ‘name’ that is being called)
`for nil:NilClass` (this means nothing at all to me, should it?).
How does one interpret this error as having anything to do with a topic, let alone a topic without a category?
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [04.Январь.2018 15:30:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/14 "2018-01-04T15:30:33Z")
As I mentioned you should look at second line too. Error is coming from [this line](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/views/list/list.rss.erb#L20). So the `topic.category` should be `nil`.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [08.Июнь.2024 12:43:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/latest-rss-no-longer-works-when-using-babble/77244/15 "2024-06-08T12:43:34Z")
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