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The small Rails app which I wrote for my wife broke down completely just after the installation of the new version of Rails (the ‘mandatory’ 1.1.5 and 1.1.6) by Dreamhost.

Couldn’t get it to work at all, and no sensible logging info was produced…

At the end (took me about four hours) it started to work again, and I actually don’t know which of the following actions actually helped:

• create a new Rails app using the rails version of the server, copy application files into the project
• setup FastCGI again
• start webbrick to see stuff working without fcgi (it actually worked)
• write a message to the helpdesk
• remove all temp files (like sessions, damn a LOT of sessions…)
• execute the dispatcher script using a CLI again, no errors…
• changed the she-bang line to reflect the first line of the script for starting webbrick (which worked), executed the script again… still no errors
• re-configure fcgi

Somehow this, or one of those, solved my problem…!? Being a java programmer I’m not really used to this sort of voodoo… (well o.k. I have used WebLogic as wel) … Is there something I should read which could enlighten me in understanding what happened?