# Question about Ramaze

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-ramaze/165417>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 13, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-ramaze/165417 "2009-04-13T20:18:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubina)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-ramaze/165417/1 "2009-04-13T20:18:37Z")

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Hello Team,

Today I installed Ramaze, which I heard of this morning.  
I tried running the “Hello” example and ran into some issues.

I open a Windows CMD window and run the Ruby sample code.  
Once the env is initialized I type the [http://localhost:7000/](http://localhost:7000/).  
When I do this on IE, I get:  
The website cannot display the page HTTP 500  
Most likely causes:

- The website is under maintenance.
- The website has a programming error.

## When I try chrome, I get: Internal Server Error undefined method `to\_a’ for #String:0x176fa18

WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.9.1/2009-01-30) at localhost:7000  
In the Ramze console, I get:  
[2009-04-13 14:12:24] ←[33mDEBUG←[0m Rack::Handler::WEBrick is invoked.  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[32mINFO ←[0m Dynamic request from 127.0.0.1:  
[http://localhost:7000/](http://localhost:7000/)  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m #\<NoMethodError: undefined method  
`to\_a’ for #String:0x176fa18\>  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m  
F:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-0.9.1/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:45:in  
`block in service’  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m  
F:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-0.9.1/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:43:in  
`each’  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m  
F:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-0.9.1/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:43:in  
`service’  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m  
F:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:111:in `service’  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m  
F:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:70:in `run’  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[31mERROR←[0m  
F:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb:183:in `block in start\_thread’  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[33mDEBUG←[0m localhost - -  
[13/Apr/2009:14:12:24  
Eastern Daylight Time] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 500 333  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[33mDEBUG←[0m - → /  
[2009-04-13 14:12:25] ←[33mDEBUG←[0m close: 127.0.0.1:3170

My questions:

Is Ramaze an application server like Rails or WebSphere?

What’s my problem here?

Thank you

Ruby S.

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**Author:** ![rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubina)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-ramaze/165417/2 "2009-04-14T00:27:42Z")

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From: “Ruby S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> `to\_a’ for #String:0x176fa18\>

[…]

> Is Ramaze an application server like Rails or WebSphere?
> 
> What’s my problem here?

As stated on the home page ( [http://ramaze.net/](http://ramaze.net/) ) Ramaze is a web  
framework.

As to the error you’re getting, maybe someone on the Ramaze IRC  
channel can help:

> **[Mibbit.com - Easy and fast Webchat in your browser](https://mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23ramaze)**
>
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Regards,

Bill