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Brian Shetland
Brian Shetland
9,704 Points
Posted by Brian Shetland
Brian Shetland
9,704 Points

Bin/rails server...

In my command prompt, I was able to generate my rails application from my projects directory but later, when I'm in my odot directory and I type bin/rails server it says:

'bin' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Because this doesn't work, I can get to localhost:3000

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

10 Answers

Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points
Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points

Are you using the Treehouse virtual machine or is this a local installation of Rails?

Try just typing "rails s" or "./bin/rails s" and see if that works for you.

Chris James
Chris James
19,102 Points
Chris James
Chris James
19,102 Points

Can somebody explain why Jason uses bin/rails server and not just rails server Does it relate to the treehouse vm? Would I still need to do that locally?

Brian Shetland
Brian Shetland
9,704 Points
Brian Shetland
Brian Shetland
9,704 Points

I'm using a local install after trying and failing to use the virtual machine. The VM requested a treehouse login and password and after trying: "treehouse" with the password "mikethefrog" & "mike the frog". I also tried my login and password and that failed too.

Just tried "rails server" from the odot directory and it started up but then it exited after stating: "TCPServer Error: Only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted"

I feel like I'm making some progress, however slowly.

Brian Shetland
Brian Shetland
9,704 Points
Brian Shetland
Brian Shetland
9,704 Points

Got everything to work now. Thank you very much for your help!

Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points
Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points

Your welcome :) glad to hear it's working for you!

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Brian Shetland just a heads up that the password to the virtual machine is "treehouse" but the vagrant ssh command should get you in there automatically. Sorry for the trouble!

Noah A
Noah A
4,144 Points
Noah A
Noah A
4,144 Points

Hello,

I am having the same issue (Windows, locally installed, bin/rails server not working.

rails s and .bin/rails server both do not work.

Any additional methods to try?

Thanks guys :)

Joaquin Godoy
Joaquin Godoy
4,632 Points
Joaquin Godoy
Joaquin Godoy
4,632 Points

Björn's solution of trying just "rails s" solved the issue I had which is also Noah's problem. Ty bro

Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points
Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points

Ok.. so that means you having something else running on port 3000 and you can only have one thing run at the same time on a port. Are you somehow booting up two rails servers?