# Looping behaviour in ruby 1.8.6 pl 230 rails 2.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looping-behaviour-in-ruby-1-8-6-pl-230-rails-2-1/145489>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [August 10, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looping-behaviour-in-ruby-1-8-6-pl-230-rails-2-1/145489 "2008-08-10T18:07:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![cleca](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cleca](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cleca)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looping-behaviour-in-ruby-1-8-6-pl-230-rails-2-1/145489/1 "2008-08-10T18:07:38Z")

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Please all note: Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 230 with rails 2.1 on Apache is  
completely broken and produces looping behaviour of the ruby  
interpreters.

The problem got me busy for some 10 days and now is solved by upgrading  
ruby. The following is a working configuration:

Apache 2.2.9, installed from scratch  
Passenger 2.0.3, installed from scratch  
\*\*\* Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 71, installed from scratch

Thanx to Frederic Cheung for pointint out possible reasons !

Clemens C.

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**Author:** ![cleca](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cleca](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cleca)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looping-behaviour-in-ruby-1-8-6-pl-230-rails-2-1/145489/2 "2008-08-11T14:45:52Z")

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Note that ruby 1.8.7 only works with rails \>= 2.1

And there is a new release of 1.8.6 here:  
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p286.tar.gz  
which apparently fixes the issues in 1.8.6-p230.

On Aug 10, 11:07 am, Clemens C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)