# Strange bug using runt with rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-bug-using-runt-with-rails/129381>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 17, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-bug-using-runt-with-rails/129381 "2008-02-17T23:55:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![blacknight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@blacknight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blacknight)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-bug-using-runt-with-rails/129381/1 "2008-02-17T23:55:01Z")

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Hi all,

I’m trying to include the ‘runt’ gem ([http://runt.rubyforge.org/](http://runt.rubyforge.org/)) in  
my Rails project. I’ve tried a few ways of doing this. I’ve tried  
installing runt using ‘gem install runt’ and then trying to do  
“require ‘runt’” in my environment.rb, and I’ve also tried using the  
‘vendor everything’ method (described at  
[Vendor Everything — err.the\_blog](http://errtheblog.com/posts/50-vendor-everything)).

In both cases, when I put “require ‘runt’” into my environment.rb  
file, start up webrick, and try to load a page from my app in the  
browser, the ruby process jumps up to 100%, the page never loads, and  
I have to kill the server. I get no error messages on the console or  
in development.log. I am able to “require ‘runt’” in a standard ruby  
script or in irb just fine, and I’ve gotten this error on two  
different machines with different environments.

I am using Rails 2.0.2, ruby 1.8.6, and runt 0.6. I’m sort of stuck,  
so if anyone has any ideas about either how to fix this or simply how  
to get more debugging info our of rails, I would be very  
appreciative.

Thanks so much,  
Ben

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**Author:** ![blacknight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@blacknight](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blacknight)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-bug-using-runt-with-rails/129381/2 "2008-05-30T13:57:30Z")

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Hi Ben

Did you ever find a solution to this, I am having the same issue.

Thanks  
Toby

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Ben W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> file, start up webrick, and try to load a page from my app in the
> 
> Thanks so much,  
> Ben
> 
> >

–  
Toby Privett  
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