I checked out the latest merb ''trunk'' and after installing it as a gem... (fresh install) I got the dreaded "fastthread not loaded: fastthread must be required before thread" error when starting up an instance of merb. Even without dRB. So I patched the merb.rb file to include fastthread before anything else if it''s installed. Check it. Merry Christmas! -rjs- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/merb-devel/attachments/20061226/1cda8e6d/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fastthread_bug.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 647 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/merb-devel/attachments/20061226/1cda8e6d/attachment.bin