# Setting up Rails to run on startup?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-rails-to-run-on-startup/118662>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [October 29, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-rails-to-run-on-startup/118662 "2007-10-29T21:21:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-rails-to-run-on-startup/118662/1 "2007-10-29T21:21:34Z")

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Hi,

I’m using Fedora LInux Core 5. After visiting the rails setup page  
([Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/down)), I’m getting stuck in the “Make your  
application” section. Specifically, when I type in “ruby script/  
server” I get the below error. What does it mean and how can I  
resolve it?

[root@remandev rubygems-0.9.4]# cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/  
testrails/  
[root@remandev testrails]# ruby script/server  
=\> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)  
=\> Rails application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
=\> Call with -d to detach  
=\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server  
Exiting  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/commands/servers/  
mongrel.rb:15: warning: already initialized constant OPTIONS  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/commands/servers/  
mongrel.rb:18: undefined method `options' for #<Array:0xb7bfe110> (NoMethodError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:32:in `gem\_original\_require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:32:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/  
commands/server.rb:39  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in `require’  
from script/server:3

Thanks, - Dave