Rails and Rake commands hang and do nothing at all

Question

I don't know why but when I run rake commands in my rails project, nothing happens. Also rails server does nothing. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

you can add an "ruby -rtracer" to the begining to see where it is hanging.

Answer 2

The solution for me entailed exiting rails console -sandbox.

I think sandboxing console puts a lock of some sort on the database.