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Ruby

Posted by Joseph Koch
Joseph Koch
3,393 Points

Ruby Installation Error

So I've been working on setting up Ruby for my Windows computer, more particularly Windows 8.1. I've made it through every step, except when I type in localhost:3000 into my internet browser, Firefox says:

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:3000.

Does anyone know what could be my problem? Everything I installed in CMD seemed to work properly, although at times it would say "DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle", then pause for a second. After this, it just finishes the operation.

1 Answer

Vincent Imburgia
Vincent Imburgia
6,474 Points
Vincent Imburgia
Vincent Imburgia
6,474 Points

You have to start the rails server before you can connect to it via the browser. First you need to create a new rails application.

rails new testapp

Then you need to enter the testapp folder and start the rails server from the bin directory.

cd testapp

bin/rails server

Then you should be able to access the the server at localhost:3000

Binary Soul
Binary Soul
4,592 Points
Binary Soul
Binary Soul
4,592 Points

and in fact, he has to install rails first ;D

use gem install rails to do so.