# Noob Install Failed 0.0.0.0:3000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 20, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-install-failed-0-0-0-0-3000/180504 "2009-12-20T19:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BearState)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-install-failed-0-0-0-0-3000/180504/1 "2009-12-20T19:12:10Z")
Happy Holidays, I am new to RoR and have just run through the install, which well seemed to be vaquely documented as some ‘Do this’ type of thing on the [http://rubyonrails.org/download](http://rubyonrails.org/download) page. download gem setup.rb gem install rails rails path/to/your/new/application cd path/to/your/new/application ruby script/server and then ( drumroll ) … Follow the instructions on [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000). Unable to connect to Server … Advise Please. Has this possibly got something to do with the fact that I am on Windows XP and the install script is choking because of white space in the path, like in “Program Files”? * * * I note two oddities which I’m sure are related to the failure … Rails 2.3.3 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:31:in `g em\_original\_require’: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/ Apache2.2/htdo cs/rails/config/environment.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected ‘\<’ (SyntaxError) \<%= '# ’ if freeze %\>RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘\<%= Rails::VERSION::STRING %\>’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION * * * Notice that the IP is 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 also, the Syntax Error * * * C:\Downloads\Ruby on Rails\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5\>setup.rb RubyGems 1.3.5 installed === 1.3.5 / 2009-07-21 Bug fixes: - Fix use of prerelease gems. - Gem.bin\_path no longer escapes path with spaces. Bug #25935 and #26458. Deprecation Notices: - Bulk index update is no longer supported (the code currently remains, but not the tests) - Gem::manage\_gems was removed in 1.3.3. - Time::today was removed in 1.3.3. * * * RubyGems installed the following executables: c:/program files/ruby/bin/gem C:\Downloads\Ruby on Rails\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5\> C:\Downloads\Ruby on Rails\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5\>gem install rails Successfully installed rake-0.8.7 Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.5 Successfully installed activerecord-2.3.5 Successfully installed rack-1.0.1 Successfully installed actionpack-2.3.5 Successfully installed actionmailer-2.3.5 Successfully installed activeresource-2.3.5 Successfully installed rails-2.3.5 8 gems installed Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7… Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.3.5… Installing ri documentation for activerecord-2.3.5… Installing ri documentation for rack-1.0.1… Installing ri documentation for actionpack-2.3.5… Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.3.5… Installing ri documentation for activeresource-2.3.5… Installing ri documentation for rails-2.3.5… Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.7… Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.3.5… Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-2.3.5… Installing RDoc documentation for rack-1.0.1… Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.3.5… Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.3.5… Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-2.3.5… Installing RDoc documentation for rails-2.3.5… C:\Downloads\Ruby on Rails\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5\> C:\Downloads\Ruby on Rails\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5\>rails c: \program files apache software foundation\apache2.2\htdocs\rails\newapp create create app/controllers create app/helpers create app/models create app/views/layouts create config/environments create config/initializers create config/locales create db create doc create lib create lib/tasks create log create public/images create public/javascripts create public/stylesheets create script/performance create test/fixtures create test/functional create test/integration create test/performance create test/unit create vendor create vendor/plugins create tmp/sessions create tmp/sockets create tmp/cache create tmp/pids create Rakefile create README create app/controllers/application\_controller.rb create app/helpers/application\_helper.rb create config/database.yml create config/routes.rb create config/locales/en.yml create db/seeds.rb create config/initializers/backtrace\_silencers.rb create config/initializers/inflections.rb create config/initializers/mime\_types.rb create config/initializers/new\_rails\_defaults.rb create config/initializers/session\_store.rb create config/environment.rb create config/boot.rb create config/environments/production.rb create config/environments/development.rb create config/environments/test.rb create script/about create script/console create script/dbconsole create script/destroy create script/generate create script/runner create script/server create script/plugin create script/performance/benchmarker create script/performance/profiler create test/test\_helper.rb create test/performance/browsing\_test.rb create public/404.html create public/422.html create public/500.html create public/index.html create public/favicon.ico create public/robots.txt create public/images/rails.png create public/javascripts/prototype.js create public/javascripts/effects.js create public/javascripts/dragdrop.js create public/javascripts/controls.js create public/javascripts/application.js create doc/README\_FOR\_APP create log/server.log create log/production.log create log/development.log create log/test.log C:\Downloads\Ruby on Rails\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5\>cd c:\program files\apa che\*\apache\*\htdocs\rails C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs \rails\>ruby script/s erver =\> Booting WEBrick =\> Rails 2.3.3 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:31:in `g em_original_require': C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/ Apache2.2/htdo cs/rails/config/environment.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected '<' (SyntaxError) <%= '# ' if freeze %>RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '<%= Rails::VERSION::STRING %>' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION ^ from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_requir e.rb:31:in `require’ from C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ htdocs/rails/ vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ htdocs/rails/ vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new\_consta nts\_in’ from C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ htdocs/rails/ vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require' from C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ htdocs/rails/ vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:84 from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_requir e.rb:31:in `gem\_original\_require’ from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_requir e.rb:31:in `require’ from script/server:3 C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\rails\> Thanks for your help in advance. bearstate – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. 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**Author:** ![BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BearState)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-install-failed-0-0-0-0-3000/180504/2 "2009-12-20T19:39:05Z")
On Dec 20, 6:09 pm, BearState [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > \<%= '# ’ if freeze %\>RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘\<%= Rails::VERSION::STRING > %\>’ unless > defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION > > * * * > > Notice that the IP is 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 The ip address is not a problem - 0.0.0.0 is shorthand for ‘listening on all interfaces’. The syntax error is really weird though. When you do rails app\_name it creates a bunch of files for you. Some of them are just copied verbatim, others are templates with some bits of information filled in on the fly. config/environment.rb is one such file. Hard to be sure without seeing the whole file but from the excerpt of the file contained in the error it looks like the template for environment.rb was just copied verbatim, without being evaluated. I suppose it’s possible that funny path names were part of the reason - easiest way to find out is to try again in a different location. Fred – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. For more options, visit this group at [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). ---
**Author:** ![BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BearState)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-install-failed-0-0-0-0-3000/180504/3 "2009-12-20T19:40:16Z")
Hello again! I call it tautological learning … you stick out your finger, get burned and don’t do that again, else, you don’t get burned and you internalize the response with the option for modification in the future. Yep, the white space in the path was the culprit. I wanted to stuff all web stuff in my Apache htdocs dir to make things easy to back up. Apparently, rails was not willing to accommodate. The install worked OK if I simply chose a path directly off c: Not what I wanted to do, but … OK, success is a better option than failure. BearState On Dec 20, 10:09 am, BearState [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Advise Please. > c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ > >  the tests) > rails > Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.3.5… > Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.3.5… >    create  app/helpers >    create  public/images >    create  tmp/sessions >    create  db/seeds.rb >    create  script/about >    create  test/performance/browsing\_test.rb >    create  public/javascripts/controls.js > > ‘\<’ (SyntaxError) >     from C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/ > vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:84 > Thanks for your help in advance. > > bearstate – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. For more options, visit this group at [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). ---
**Author:** ![BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@BearState](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BearState)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-install-failed-0-0-0-0-3000/180504/4 "2009-12-20T20:01:55Z")
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