In order to do some work on a Rails 2.3 application for a customer, I got to setting up the development environment to work on so that it mirrored the production environment.
Once I started the application though, I found that Safari wouldn’t render the application at all, where as I could see it rendering in Chrome and Firefox.
A quick search on the Rails Lighthouse account quickly revealed the problem.
Older versions of Mongrel, like the one I was using on this project, don’t work too well with 2.3.x versions of Rails in Safari.
A quick update to Mongrel gem to the latest version and my Rails application is rendering again on Safari.
