# Ruby script/console hangs on cygwin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-script-console-hangs-on-cygwin/114312>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 11, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-script-console-hangs-on-cygwin/114312 "2007-09-11T08:52:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-script-console-hangs-on-cygwin/114312/1 "2007-09-11T08:52:41Z")

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> ruby -v script/console  
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin]  
> Loading development environment.

What I did was

1. install latest cygwin files
2. download and install rubygems from \<[http://rubyforge.org/frs/](http://rubyforge.org/frs/)?  
group\_id=126\>
3. gem install rails --include-dependencies

rails test  
cd test  
ruby script/console

How can I debug this ? It looks like it’s hanging forever. When I  
interrupt it I get:

/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`require': Interrupt from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/  
action\_controller/integration.rb:3  
from /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:  
27:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 27:in `require’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new\_constants\_in’  
… 9 levels…  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start’  
from /usr/bin/irb:13

FWIW:

> ls -l /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/  
> totaal 0  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 4 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:21 actionmailer-1.3.3  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 5 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:21 actionpack-1.13.3  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 5 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:21  
> actionwebservice-1.2.3  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 5 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:20 activerecord-1.15.3  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 3 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:20 activesupport-1.4.2  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 11 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:21 rails-1.2.3  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 6 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:20 rake-0.7.3  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 11 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 10 09:48 rubygems-  
> update-0.9.4  
> drwxr-xr-x+ 3 801223 Domain Users 0 Sep 7 16:19 sources-0.0.1

On macosX this is working like a charm. Problem is I am forced to use  
xp…