From: didier.prophete@... Date: 2006-01-11T11:38:02+09:00 Subject: Re: rails: webrick & lighttp/fcgi threading model all right guys, after spending some more time staring at the code, I found out why this is happening: active_support is going to start a breakpoint server... which then starts an irb process... which then reads and run my .irbrc... thank you all for your help. -Didier ps: and btw, I made a mistake: WEBrick is *not* single threaded...