# activeldap setup help?

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/activeldap-setup-help/5810>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [December 13, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/activeldap-setup-help/5810 "2006-12-13T18:07:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![tilthouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tilthouse](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/tilthouse)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/activeldap-setup-help/5810/1 "2006-12-13T18:07:16Z")

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So I would like to use ActiveLDAP. I have been following along with [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateViaLdap](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateViaLdap) .

I installed ruby-activeldap (0.8.0) from RubyGems, which also installed log4r -- that all appeared to work. I then installed rubyldap from its latest tar.gz. Also appeared to work fine.

But I'm stuck here. When I add require 'activeldap' (or require 'active\_ldap' -- I tried both) to my environment.rb the server will not start and produces no output other than "=\> Booting WEBrick". It does not add anything to the log.

Can someone help me get started here with some pointers on getting ActiveLDAP hooked in? Also, is there a way to get the rails server to produce more verbose output so that I might see what is actually causing the failure?

Thanks, Alex RoR n00b