Rails and Rake commands hang and do nothing at all

Question

I don't know why but when I run rake commands in my rails project, nothing happens. Also rails server does nothing. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You could try adding the --trace argument to your rake calls to see if that sheds any light on where it is getting stuck. Failing that there may be some information in the logs.

It does suggest that something that is getting stuck during setting up your environment which may be something you've added to environment.rb.

Answer 2

you can add an "ruby -rtracer" to the begining to see where it is hanging.