undefined method `create_file' for nil:NilClass

[Yanson]

I've seen this error, but only in one case. It looks like it's calling write before setup.

I tried adding @gs_bucket = initialize_bucket unless @gs_bucket before the write but it didn't help. I don't get the error, but it doesn't write the file, timeout or error in another way.

I am writing to a bucket in the US and only experience this issue from europe-west1. It works fine from my instances in us-central1 and AWS us-east-1.

All the instances are setup with puppet so I doubt there is any environmental differences.

Any ideas?

[trekdemo]

I only had this error when I used a non-existing bucket name.
I'm working on a guard method which checks the specified bucket in configuration time. You can expect it in a few days.

Until then just double check if you can reach your bucket from the mentioned server.

Here's a quick gist to check it:

require "gcloud"
Gcloud
  .new("<project-name>", "<path-to-key-file>")
  .storage
  .bucket("<name-of-your-bucket>")

[Yanson]

Thanks for your help. The gist worked fine.

I've diagnosed this to be due to using 512MB buffers. If I split an existing buffer into smaller chunks, the files uploaded without a problem.

The only difference with my European instances was that they were smaller and had 1.8GB RAM. I've upgraded them to instances with more RAM and 512MB buffers work fine again.

I'm assuming there is an issue in the Google Cloud client that causes the create_file operation to hang at a point before the timeout (which seems to be 120s by default, on a separate note maybe you could make that configurable).

I don't think you can do anything about this, but we can leave this ticket open as you have identified the cause of the error message as a genuine bug.