# Mongrel 0.3.2 Strangely Silent

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**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-2-strangely-silent/53774 "2006-02-14T13:34:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimweirich)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-2-strangely-silent/53774/1 "2006-02-14T13:34:33Z")

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I wanted to check out the latest ruby craze: Mongrel. So I installed  
mongrel as a gem, whipped up a small example based on the docs. But no  
joy. Running the script shows no output on the terminal and a browser  
trying to load the url just keeps spinning the “in-progress” indicator.

Here’s the script:

* * *

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require ‘mongrel’

class SimpleHandler \< Mongrel::HttpHandler  
def process(request, response)  
response.start(200) do |head,out|  
head[“Content-Type”] = “text/plain”  
out.write(“hello!\n”)  
end  
end  
end

## h = Mongrel::HttpServer.new(“0.0.0.0”, “3030”) h.register(“/test”, SimpleHandler.new) h.register(“/files”, Mongrel::DirHandler.new(“.”)) h.run.join

The web addess I tried was [http://localhost:3030](http://localhost:3030). Also tried  
[http://traken:3030](http://traken:3030) (where traken is the name of the host). I also tried  
using “localhost” explicitly in the script instead of “0.0.0.0”.

What am I missing here?

–  
– Jim W.

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**Author:** ![jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimweirich)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-2-strangely-silent/53774/2 "2006-02-14T13:37:35Z")

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Jim W. wrote:

> The web addess I tried was [http://localhost:3030](http://localhost:3030). Also tried  
> [http://traken:3030](http://traken:3030) (where traken is the name of the host). I also tried  
> using “localhost” explicitly in the script instead of “0.0.0.0”.

Just to be clear … I also tried the [http://localhost:3030/files](http://localhost:3030/files) and  
[http://localhost:3030/test](http://localhost:3030/test) too. Debugging prints added to the “process”  
method in the script reveals that it never gets called.

–  
– Jim W.

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**Author:** ![jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimweirich)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-2-strangely-silent/53774/3 "2006-02-14T15:13:14Z")

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Hey Jim,

Yeah, looks like I didn’t regression test the new timeout code outside  
of  
Ruby on Rails. Doh!

Your stuff should run if you do ruby -rtimeout for now. I’m posting a  
new  
release as we speak to include this one-line fix.

Thanks for catching it.

Zed

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**Author:** ![jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jimweirich](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimweirich)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-0-3-2-strangely-silent/53774/4 "2006-02-14T15:13:16Z")

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Alright, fix is out. Grab the 0.3.3 release when you can (and when the  
mirrors update) and try it all again.

Zed A. Shaw

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