From: Brian Watson <bwatson@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T04:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick initialisation problem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Hodel [mailto:drbrain@segment7.net]
> Sent: 03 May 2006 19:56
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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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Thanks for the help see the result below since I am new to Ruby and
don't know what to expect I am afraid I don't know what this means :-(

U:\ruby>ruby -rsocket -e "TCPServer.new 'localhost', 3000"

U:\ruby>