From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2010-06-03T05:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket error


On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Ted Pon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am a student learning ruby and I am getting an error that I can't
> figure out. It works on my teacher's mac, however does not on my  
> laptop.
>
> Windows Vista 64-bit
> My ruby version is: 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386- 
> mingw32]
>
>
> Here is what I've tried in cmd
>
> irb
>
> irb(main):002:0> require 'socket'
> => true
> irb(main):005:0> TCPSocket.open('0.0.0.0', 8888)
> Errno::EADDRNOTAVAIL: The requested address is not valid in its  
> context.
> - conne
> ct(2)
>        from (irb):5:in `initialize'
>        from (irb):5:in `open'
>        from (irb):5
>        from C:/Ruby19/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

Is there a server listening at port 8888?

server = TCPServer.new('0.0.0.0', 8888)

There's some examples in the Programming Ruby book from the Pragmatic  
Publishers.

-Rob


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