Hey, you need Ruby 1.8.4. I'll see if I can include that in the gem dependency information. The readpartial method is a new method on the Socket class, nothing to do with rails. On 2/14/06 7:53 AM, "_blackdog" <rmt512 / gmail.com> wrote: > hi there, > > i just installed mongrel 0.32 with my rails app and got this, > > -bash-3.00$ mongrel_rails start -p 8081 > Running Mongrel server in development mode at 0.0.0.0:8081 > Server ready. > ERROR(NoMethodError): undefined method `readpartial' for > #<TCPSocket:0x8e44cc4>