# Rails:freeze:gems breaks rails/info/properties

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsgems-breaks-rails-info-properties/107612>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 24, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsgems-breaks-rails-info-properties/107612 "2007-06-24T02:56:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/desertpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsgems-breaks-rails-info-properties/107612/1 "2007-06-24T02:56:29Z")

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For some reason, running rake rails:freeze:gems breaks the default info  
page at rails/info/properties.

rake unfreeze\_rails fixes the problem.

Any ideas what causes this?

(I am considering freezing my app before I deploy, and now I am worried  
it might break other things…)

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**Author:** ![desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/desertpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsgems-breaks-rails-info-properties/107612/2 "2007-06-24T03:03:44Z")

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Desert P. wrote:

> For some reason, running rake rails:freeze:gems breaks the default info  
> page at rails/info/properties.
> 
> rake unfreeze\_rails fixes the problem.

What is it that breaks? Do you have an error from your log? And which  
version of rails are you freezing?

Chris K.  
[http://kampers.net](http://kampers.net)

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**Author:** ![desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/desertpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsgems-breaks-rails-info-properties/107612/3 "2007-06-24T03:19:34Z")

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Desert P. wrote:

> For some reason, running rake rails:freeze:gems breaks the default info  
> page at rails/info/properties.
> 
> rake unfreeze\_rails fixes the problem.

Oh, and one other thing. The persistent gotcha with  
rails/info#properties is that it’s only available for local requests.

Chris K.  
[http://kampers.net](http://kampers.net)

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**Author:** ![desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@desertpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/desertpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsgems-breaks-rails-info-properties/107612/4 "2007-06-24T06:34:42Z")

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Chris K. wrote:

> Desert P. wrote:
> 
> > For some reason, running rake rails:freeze:gems breaks the default info  
> > page at rails/info/properties.
> > 
> > rake unfreeze\_rails fixes the problem.
> 
> Oh, and one other thing. The persistent gotcha with  
> rails/info#properties is that it’s only available for local requests.
> 
> Chris K.  
> [http://kampers.net](http://kampers.net)

It breaks using 1.2.3  
Freezing to the gems for Rails 1.2.3  
Unpacked gem: ‘activesupport-1.4.2’  
Unpacked gem: ‘activerecord-1.15.3’  
Unpacked gem: ‘actionpack-1.13.3’  
Unpacked gem: ‘actionmailer-1.3.3’  
Unpacked gem: ‘actionwebservice-1.2.3’  
Unpacked gem: ‘rails-1.2.3’

I am browsing locally.

Before freeze, it works.  
Immediately after freeze, it just hangs.  
No error in the logs.  
No bad route message.  
Nothing.  
Just hangs forever.  
Unfreeze and everything works again.

I am going to try it on an ec2 instance to see if I can replicate it.  
(Right now I am on Mac OS x)