# Rails not loading properly when gems are frozen

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-not-loading-properly-when-gems-are-frozen/116043>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 1, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-not-loading-properly-when-gems-are-frozen/116043 "2007-10-01T21:45:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@jon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jon)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-not-loading-properly-when-gems-are-frozen/116043/1 "2007-10-01T21:45:00Z")

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I have a app that works fine with Rails 1.1.6 with unfrozen gems. But  
when I freeze them, I get a bunch of errors about uninitialized  
constants. I also tried just creating the vendor/rails directory  
manually, and getting the 1.1.6 release from SVN and putting it in  
there. Same result. What could be the problem?

euterpe:~/Documents/Parallels/Shared Folders/Nexus jon$ script/server  
=\> Booting WEBrick…  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/  
dependencies.rb:123:in `const_missing': uninitialized constant ActiveRecordStore (NameError) from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:131:in`const\_missing’  
from ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:133:in `const_missing' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/ action_controller/session_management.rb:25:in`session\_store=’  
from ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/  
initializer.rb:280:in `initialize_framework_settings' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ initializer.rb:279:in`initialize\_framework\_settings’  
from ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/  
initializer.rb:276:in `initialize_framework_settings' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ initializer.rb:93:in`process’  
from ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/  
initializer.rb:42:in `run' from ./script/../config/../config/environment.rb:13 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/ servers/webrick.rb:52 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/ server.rb:30 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from script/server:3

euterpe:~/Documents/Parallels/Shared Folders/Nexus jon$ script/  
console  
Loading development environment.  
./script/…/config/…/config/environment.rb:43:NameError:  
uninitialized constant ActionMailer  
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/  
action\_controller/integration.rb:15:NameError: uninitialized constant  
ActionController::Integration::Session::Test  
./script/…/config/…/config/…/app/controllers/application.rb:  
3:NameError: uninitialized constant ActionController::Base