From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-04T03:56:29+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick initialisation problem

On May 3, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Brian Watson wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Hodel [mailto:drbrain@segment7.net]
>> Sent: 03 May 2006 17:40
>> To: ruby-talk ML
>> Subject: Re: WEBrick initialisation problem
>>
>> On May 3, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Brian Watson wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to Ruby so I thought the best way to get into it would  
>>> be to
>>> follow the ONLamp "Rolling with Ruby on Rails" intro. I followed the
>>> instructions to the letter and everything work just great, very
>>> impressive:-).
>>>
>>> A couple of days later when I went back to it I got the following
>>> message when trying to start the WEBrick server.
>>>
>>> U:\RoRProjects\cookbook>ruby script\server
>>> => Booting WEBrick...
>>> => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
>>> => Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options
>>> [2006-05-03 08:52:40] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
>>> [2006-05-03 08:52:40] INFO  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
>>> [2006-05-03 08:52:40] WARN  TCPServer Error: Bad file descriptor -
>>> bind(2)
>>> u:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `initialize': Bad file
>>> descriptor - bind(2) (Errno::EBADF)
>>>         from u:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in
>>> `create_listeners'
>>
>> You probably have a WEBrick already running.  Shut it down.
>>
> I have no WEBrick already, nor IIS or Apache or any other web server
> that I'm aware of.

What does this do?

ruby -rsocket -e "TCPServer.new 'localhost', 3000"

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