Ruby on Rails console is hanging when loading

Question

For whatever reason, the Ruby on Rails console refuses to start; it just hangs. I haven\'t made any changes to my code, and other projects using the same version of Ruby and

Answer 1

Changing the following method in the lib/application.rb file of the spring gem (path can be shown with the gem info spring command) like this does the trick:

def eager_preload
      with_pty do
        # we can't see stderr and there could be issues when it's overflown
        # see https://github.com/rails/spring/issues/396
        STDERR.reopen("/dev/null")
        preload
      end
end

see https://github.com/markiz/spring/commit/5f3ab734fc45d541aaaccb05b59cd95aa49fe8ef