# Setup problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050 "2006-04-19T05:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/1 "2006-04-19T05:01:23Z")
I am trying to set up rails and am have problems. I have googled everything I could think of, but have not found my problem. Here are my specs. Gentoo Linux 2006.0 Apache 2.2 Ruby 1.8.4 Gems 1.8 Rails 1.1.2 mod\_fcgid 1.08 When I try to access my test rails app through the webserver, I get the following error in the error.log (after seeing a html 500 error on the page). [Fri Apr 14 19:54:48 2006] [notice] mod\_fcgid: server /var/www/rails/cookbook/public/dispatch.fcgi(20039) started /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:123:in `const_missing': uninitialized constant RailsFCGIHandler (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:131:in`const\_missing’ from /var/www/rails/cookbook/public/dispatch.fcgi:25 I have seen suggestions to run ‘ruby dispatch.fcgi’ from the command line, but I get the same error. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/2 "2006-04-19T07:57:12Z")
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**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/3 "2006-04-19T21:33:54Z")
I installed everything the WiKi said. Apache mod\_fcgid fcgi gems ruby rails gem fcgi gem Is there something else I need? ---
**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/4 "2006-04-20T20:46:02Z")
Any ideas anyone? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/5 "2006-05-10T09:26:57Z")
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**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/6 "2006-04-27T23:57:23Z")
I had the exact same side effect when the fcgi gem wasn’t installed… so I’d be suspcicious about that gem… maybe it’s not installed correctly? ---
**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/7 "2007-08-23T16:32:50Z")
Ok, I fixed it! My dispatch.fcgi file originally read: RailsFCGIHandler.process! ‘/var/log/myapp\_fcgi\_crash.log’ require File.dirname( **FILE** ) + “/…/config/environment” require ‘fcgi\_handler’ RailsFCGIHandler.process! And something didn’t seem right about that, so I tested a theory: require File.dirname( **FILE** ) + “/…/config/environment” require ‘fcgi\_handler’ RailsFCGIHandler.process! ‘/var/log/myapp\_fcgi\_crash.log’ RailsFCGIHandler.process! Guess what! That fixed it, and I wasted an entire day on this. I’m submitting a bug right after posting this. Cheers, Michael ---
**Author:** ![markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@markbates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markbates)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-problem/94050/8 "2007-08-23T16:26:08Z")
Anonymous wrote: > I had the exact same side effect when the fcgi gem wasn’t installed… > so I’d be suspcicious about that gem… maybe it’s not installed > correctly? I have the exact same problem: root public# ./dispatch.fcgi ./dispatch.fcgi:19: uninitialized constant RailsFCGIHandler (NameError) root public# And I do have fcgi installed: root public# gem list \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\* actionmailer (1.3.3) Service layer for easy email delivery and testing. actionpack (1.13.3) Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC. actionwebservice (1.2.3) Web service support for Action Pack. activerecord (1.15.3) Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM. activesupport (1.4.2) Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework. cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.3) Fix an exploitable bug in CGI multipart parsing. fastthread (1.0) Optimized replacement for thread.rb primitives fcgi (0.8.7) FastCGI library for Ruby. fcgiwrap (0.1.5) A trick to wrap CGI in FastCGI easily flvtool2 (1.0.6) Flash video (FLV) manipulation tool gem\_plugin (0.2.2) A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only highline (1.4.0) HighLine is a high-level command-line IO library. needle (1.3.0) Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor) injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies. rails (1.2.3) Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM. rake (0.7.3) Ruby based make-like utility. rubyforge (0.4.4) A script which automates a limited set of rubyforge operations. sources (0.0.1) This package provides download sources for remote gem installation root public# So this isn’t a web service problem, it’s a ruby not loading with it’s own fcgi gem. I installed it by running root public# gem install fcgi Then I again tried installing manually, by downloading the tgz and manually building it. It built without errors, and still the same result. Has anyone got this to work?