# Activerecord - "remove\_method" fails on method "transaction"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerecord-remove-method-fails-on-method-transaction/104523>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 18, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerecord-remove-method-fails-on-method-transaction/104523 "2007-05-18T23:33:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ledelste](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ledelste](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ledelste)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerecord-remove-method-fails-on-method-transaction/104523/1 "2007-05-18T23:33:28Z")

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I had a running RoR application which failed upon reboot a few days  
ago. I’'m on FreeBSD 4.7, ruby 1.8.5, rails 1.1.6. As far as I know,  
nothing’s changed, so I’m quite puzzled. Now when I run script/server  
or script/console or even script/about, I get the following:

[…@… ~/…]$ ruby script/server --environment=production  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/  
active\_record/transactions.rb:2:in `remove_method': method`transaction’ not defined in Transaction::Simple (NameError)  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/  
active\_record/transactions.rb:2:in `send' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/ active_record/transactions.rb:2 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:33:in`gem\_original\_require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:33:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in`require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/  
active\_record.rb:44  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
… 7 levels…  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:59:in  
`require_gem' from ./script/../config/boot.rb:28 from script/server:2:in`require’  
from script/server:2  
[…@… ~/…]$

Any idea what the hell this is??

-Larry