Non-descriptive error message when can't connect to Conductor

[jistr]

This might also be a problem with error logging. It looks like it's trying to log the error but it cannot from some reason.

$ bundle exec bin/aeolus provider_account list
E, [2013-01-23T10:58:54.841618 #10601] ERROR -- : Could not log "request.active_resource" event. NoMethodError: undefined method `code' for nil:NilClass
Error:  Connection refused - connect(2)
For further debugging information, see /tmp/aeolus-cli-trace-10601.log

[TylerRick]

I'm getting the exact same error message when my app tries to connect via active_resource. (Nothing to do with thor-cli though.)

I don't know how to get the backtrace for the NoMethodError error that gets rescued when ActiveResource attempts to log the request, but the error that occurs immediately after it the attempted HTTP request was Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2), so the logging error must occur as a result of that unhandled/unexpected SystemCallError.

It was probably trying to log the HTTP status code returned by the request, but since the request failed, response.code would have been nil.code...