# Rails hangs after inactivity

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-hangs-after-inactivity/127842>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 1, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-hangs-after-inactivity/127842 "2008-02-01T20:01:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e9bcb4/32.png) [@quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quirk07)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-hangs-after-inactivity/127842/1 "2008-02-01T20:01:32Z")

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I’m running ruby 1.8.6, WEBrick 1.3.1, & MySQL. On Localhost:3000. It  
works fine but if it sits idle for a few hours or more, it will hang and  
I needs to be restarted.

Read similar problem before, said it has something to do with MySQL  
timing out or something? He didn’t have any more info though, so  
wondering if anybody can elaborate.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e9bcb4/32.png) [@quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quirk07)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-hangs-after-inactivity/127842/2 "2008-02-01T23:11:31Z")

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Are there any clues in the logs?

On Feb 1, 2:01 pm, Qolo W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e9bcb4/32.png) [@quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quirk07)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-hangs-after-inactivity/127842/3 "2008-02-02T00:17:39Z")

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Wyatt G. wrote:

> Are there any clues in the logs?
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> On Feb 1, 2:01 pm, Qolo W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

I don’t remember exact time it last happened. I’m not familiar with  
extracting info from log files in RoR. I’ll try to start fresh log and  
recreate.

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**Author:** ![quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e9bcb4/32.png) [@quirk07](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quirk07)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-hangs-after-inactivity/127842/4 "2008-02-02T01:07:27Z")

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This will happen if you aren’t using the compiled mysql gem.

sudo gem install mysql

and you should see this problem go away.

On Feb 1, 1:01 pm, Qolo W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)