# Instant Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails/73541 "2006-10-25T04:55:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails/73541/1 "2006-10-25T04:55:26Z")
I’m having a newbie problem getting Instant Rails to start WEBrick. I’ve created a demo project by type Rails Demo at the InstantRails command prompt. This worked fine. I then navigate to the Demo directory and type ruby script/server. I get the following errors… C:\InstantRails\InstantRails\rails\_apps\demo\>ruby script/server =\> Booting WEBrick… =\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options [2006-10-24 18:33:24] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2006-10-24 18:33:24] INFO ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32] [2006-10-24 18:33:24] WARN TCPServer Error: Bad file descriptor - bind(2) C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `initializ e': Bad file descriptor - bind(2) (Errno::EBADF) from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73: in `new’ from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73: in `create_listeners' from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:70: in `each’ from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:70: in `create_listeners' from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:75 :in `listen’ from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:63 :in `initialize' from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.r b:24:in `initialize’ from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1. 6/lib/webrick\_server.rb:59:in `new' ... 6 levels... from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/c ustom_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/c ustom\_require.rb:27:in `require' from C:/InstantRails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupp ort-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require’ from script/server:3 Does anybody have an idea of how i might fix this? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails/73541/2 "2006-10-25T05:59:33Z")
Ron, Check your config/database.yaml and config/environment.rb files and make sure they exist and are configured correctly. Nate ---
**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails/73541/3 "2006-10-25T06:55:46Z")
They exist. I’m not really sure what i’m looking for in them, but i didn’t touch them. I’m assuming Instant Rails automatically creates the database for you. I also cannot get the sample cookbook projects to start when i click on ‘start with mongrel’, the dos window closes right away. ---
**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails/73541/4 "2006-10-26T17:40:14Z")
On 10/24/06, Ron [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > They exist. I’m not really sure what i’m looking for in them, but i > didn’t touch them. I’m assuming Instant Rails automatically creates > the database for you. I also cannot get the sample cookbook projects > to start when i click on ‘start with mongrel’, the dos window closes > right away. No, rails does not create the database for you. The config/database.yaml file will have default names for your development, test, and production databases, but you still have to physically create the database (and change the names if you choose a different name). To see what’s going on with Mongrel, open a Ruby console window through Instant Rails, navigate into the cookbook directory, and run the command “mongrel\_rails”. Now you should be ably to see why its aborting without the window going away on you. Curt ---
**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails/73541/5 "2006-10-26T17:46:15Z")
On 10/26/06, Curt H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > development, test, and production databases, but you still have to > physically create the database (and change the names if you choose a > different name). > > To see what’s going on with Mongrel, open a Ruby console window > through Instant Rails, navigate into the cookbook directory, and run > the command “mongrel\_rails”. Now you should be ably to see why its > aborting without the window going away on you. Sorry, I should have said to run the command “mongrel\_rails start”. You can also force mongrel to do debug logging with “mongrel\_rails start -B”, then look for the log file in your Rails app’s “log” subdirectory. Curt