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Ruby

Posted by Emy Ng
Emy Ng
8,035 Points

Ruby on Rails localhost:3000 not working?

I'm installing ruby on rails in Windows. I have tried localhost:3000, 127.0.0.1:3000 and 0.0.0.0:3000 in Chrome, but none is working. I ran the following commands "gem install bundle sqlite rails", "rails new testapp", "cd testapp" and "bundle exec rails server". I even restart my machine, but no luck.

5 Answers

Emy Ng
Emy Ng
8,035 Points

The problem is fixed. The real problem was not connecting to localhost:3000, but was that rails wasn't installed correctly. When I ran "rails server" there was an error line that said: C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/tzinfo-1.2.1/lib/tzinfo/data_source.rb: No source of timezone data could be found. Please refer to http://tzinfo.github.io/datasourcenot found for help resolving this error. The link to the solution is: https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/wiki/Resolving-TZInfo%3a%3aDataSourceNotFound-Errors I think this is a common error in Windows machine. After I changed the gemfile, rails is up and running. Thanks everyone for your help and sorry for not finding the real problem.

Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

A longtime Rubyist on Windows, I highly recommend not using the 64-bit version of Rails and Ruby on Windows.

Jiyda Mohamed Moussa
Jiyda Mohamed Moussa
105 Points

I had exactly the same problem. Thanks for posting the solution.

Joshua Briley
PLUS
Joshua Briley
Courses Plus Student 24,645 Points
Joshua Briley
Joshua Briley
Courses Plus Student 24,645 Points

Have you tried running rails server?

Emy Ng
Emy Ng
8,035 Points

Yes, I have.

Joshua Briley
Joshua Briley
Courses Plus Student 24,645 Points

Which version of Ruby are you using? Is it consistent with your gem file?

Joshua Briley
Joshua Briley
Courses Plus Student 24,645 Points

Assuming you have RVM installed, can you type rvm list into your terminal and tell me what you see?

Emy Ng
Emy Ng
8,035 Points

The version is ruby-2.0.0-p481-x64. Using the command gem query --local, the gem files installed are: bundler 1.6.2, rails 4.1.1, sqlite3 1.3.9x64

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

Try rails server.

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

On localhost:3000.

Emy Ng
Emy Ng
8,035 Points

How do I run rails server on the localhost:3000?

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

Type rails server into the console while in you project directory. Then while it's running type localhost:3000 into your web browser.

Emy Ng
Emy Ng
8,035 Points

Yeap, I tried that and it didn't work.

Artem Prytkov
Artem Prytkov
11,932 Points
Artem Prytkov
Artem Prytkov
11,932 Points

1) Test if you have actually installed rails via rails -v 2) Make sure you changed directory (in command prompt) to one, where your current project is. 3) Run rails s command

Julian Betancourt
Julian Betancourt
11,466 Points
Julian Betancourt
Julian Betancourt
11,466 Points

I kind of have the same problem, I installed ruby using railsinstaller.org version 2.1 on Windows, now when i type rails s I get some information but I can't see the localhost address. This is what I get: http://oi61.tinypic.com/1z4j39v.jpg

Hope you can help me out