# Cannot get past "Booting WEBrick"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-get-past-booting-webrick/100187>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 27, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-get-past-booting-webrick/100187 "2006-07-27T17:48:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![A\_Qureshi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@A\_Qureshi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/A_Qureshi)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-get-past-booting-webrick/100187/1 "2006-07-27T17:48:53Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I am following the ‘Agile Web Dev. with Rails’ book, and I used instant  
rails to do the install on a Windows machine. Everything seemed to work  
fine until I got to:

Booting WEBrick…

After that, nothing happens. I tried creating a new rails application,  
but  
I get the same  
problem. I also tried reinstalling to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![A\_Qureshi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@A\_Qureshi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/A_Qureshi)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-get-past-booting-webrick/100187/2 "2006-07-27T19:21:08Z")

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Well, I have just installed rails with RubyGem. What I do is to create a  
new app and then I start WEBrick from this new app. Then, I open a new  
command window to keep on doing things, while the first one stays with  
the server, let’s say.

I hope this gives you any hint to your problem… :S

A Qureshi wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am following the ‘Agile Web Dev. with Rails’ book, and I used instant  
> rails to do the install on a Windows machine. Everything seemed to work  
> fine until I got to:
> 
> Booting WEBrick…
> 
> After that, nothing happens. I tried creating a new rails application,  
> but  
> I get the same  
> problem. I also tried reinstalling to no avail.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![A\_Qureshi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@A\_Qureshi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/A_Qureshi)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-get-past-booting-webrick/100187/3 "2006-07-28T19:53:51Z")

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I don’t use Windows, but it seems your problem is with your Webrick  
installation.

You could try installing  
Mongrel[http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/win32.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/win32.html)and using that  
instead as your webserver.