So I’m trying to integrate HeyWatch into my rails app and I’m following the ruby library instructions and have put require and HeyWatch::Base stuff in my environment.rb file.

When I do this and restart mongrel…my mongrels just plain won’t start. No errors. Just won’t start.

Commenting out those two lines in environment.rb fixes the issue and lets me start the mongrels.

They HeyWatch gem is installed and I’m able to run the two lines in script/console.

So, any ideas what the issue could be?

You should see the mongrel log log/mongrel.PORT.log, maybe there is an error. What are the two lines you added in your environment.rb?

Did you test the lib using irb?

require "rubygems" 
require "heywatch"

Looks like there were issues with gem installation on my server. Got that worked out and the heywatch gem is working as it should. :)