# Rails on Apache: FAIL **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 23, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820 "2008-07-23T01:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/km01)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820/1 "2008-07-23T01:56:01Z")
Hey guys, I am getting the following while trying to run a rails project someone else wrote under apache: [Tue Jul 22 19:50:33 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod\_ruby/1.2.6 Ruby/1.8.6(2008-03-03) configured – resuming normal operations [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: failed to require apache/rails-dispatcher [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: error in ruby [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:139:in `activate': can't activate actionpack (= 1.13.6), already activated actionpack-2.1.0] (Gem::Exception) [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:in`activate’ [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `each' [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in`activate’ [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in `require' [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in`require’ [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:354:in `new_constants_in' [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:509:in`require’ [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/apache/rails-dispatcher.rb:55 [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod\_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' [Tue Jul 22 19:50:45 2008] [error] mod_ruby: from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ I have googled quite some, but none of the answers I found actually worked. Any pointers as to what could be going wrong there? I am running rails 2.1.0, mod\_ruby 1.2.6 and ruby 1.8.6. Thanks a bunch! ---
**Author:** ![km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/km01)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820/2 "2008-07-23T02:18:27Z")
On Jul 23, 12:56 am, Kryptic M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hey guys, > I am getting the following while trying to run a rails project someone > else wrote under apache: I didn’t think anyone actually used mod\_ruby. What happens if you just try and bring up the app’s console (require script/console) ? Off the top of my head it looks like one bit of the app is requiring actionpack (which causes the latest version available to be loaded) but then some other bit is requiring a specific version (1.13.6 which, if memory serves me correctly, was parts of rails 1.2.6). This might happen for example if environment.rb specified 1.2.6 as the version of rails to load, but somewhere else some was just trying to load the actionpack gem Fred ---
**Author:** ![km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/km01)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820/3 "2008-07-23T17:18:22Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On Jul 23, 12:56�am, Kryptic M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > I am getting the following while trying to run a rails project someone > > else wrote under apache: > > I didn’t think anyone actually used mod\_ruby. What happens if you just > try and bring up the app’s console (require script/console) ? > Hey Fredrick! > Thanks for the response! Should I use FCGI with Apache instead of > mod\_ruby? What is the community “standard” as for running RoR apps? Regards, KM ---
**Author:** ![km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/km01)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820/4 "2008-07-23T19:50:43Z")
You could also try Passenger ie ModRails [http://www.modrails.com/](http://www.modrails.com/) On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Jean N. ---
**Author:** ![km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/km01)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820/5 "2008-07-23T17:31:32Z")
> Hey Fredrick! > Thanks for the response! Should I use FCGI with Apache instead of > mod\_ruby? What is the community “standard” as for running RoR apps? > > Regards, > KM Forget apache and the mod\_ruby unless you HAVE to use it… it’s sorta “old school” now with the newer technologies just as performant and reliable. Mongrel w/ Nginx. Try those you wont regret it. Or check out “Heroku” (google it) and see if you can get an account there… they do it all for you. Hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@km01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/km01)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-apache-fail/143820/6 "2008-07-24T00:49:30Z")
Lee I. wrote: > You could also try Passenger ie ModRails [http://www.modrails.com/](http://www.modrails.com/) > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Jean N. Hi Lee! That did it. Thanks for the help guys!