# Rails cannot connect error after updating using ruby and rai **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 19, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-cannot-connect-error-after-updating-using-ruby-and-rai/114996 "2007-09-19T16:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pito)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-cannot-connect-error-after-updating-using-ruby-and-rai/114996/1 "2007-09-19T16:22:31Z")
I am on a mac. Have been developing using a manually installed (according to the hivelogic instructions) ruby, rails, gems, mongrel setup. Life was good. When I noticed that my ruby version was out of date, I decided to switch to using macports to maintain the software on my mac. I used it to install a new ruby and gems, and then used gems to get the latest rails. Life seemed to be good. Next I ran mongrel to launch the app and it seems to start ok. But when I go to localhost:3000 I get “cannot connect” from my browser. If I create a hello world application (rails helloworld) and then go to localhost:3000 then it does what is expected. So: I suspect there is some dependency in my rails app that stopped working on something which changed when I updated my ruby and rails install. Here is what _I know_ changed: - ruby and rails are now installed in /opt./local/bin where before it was installed in /usr/local/bin ( I have updated my path of course - to include opt first and usr second - ruby and rails have slightly higher version numbers. Ruby from 1.8.4 to 1.8.6 and rails from 1.2.0 (I think) to 1.2.3 However I can’t find a dependency on either of those things in my rails application. Any hints? Am I looking in totally the wrong place? ---
**Author:** ![Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pito)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-cannot-connect-error-after-updating-using-ruby-and-rai/114996/2 "2007-09-19T16:53:38Z")
Anything informative in the logs ? ---
**Author:** ![Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pito)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-cannot-connect-error-after-updating-using-ruby-and-rai/114996/3 "2007-09-19T17:24:48Z")
Ah yes, I think, but don’t know how to interpret it. Can you help? /mydev/rubywork/myscrum$ mongrel\_rails start -d /mydev/rubywork/myscrum$ mongrel\_rails stop !!! PID file log/mongrel.pid does not exist. Not running? mongrel::stop reported an error. Use mongrel\_rails mongrel::stop -h to get help. /mydev/rubywork/myscrum$ ls log mongrel.log /mydev/rubywork/myscrum$ cd log /mydev/rubywork/myscrum/log$ cat mongrel.log \*\* Daemonized, any open files are closed. Look at log/mongrel.pid and log/mongrel.log for info. \*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 \*\* Starting Rails with development environment… /mydev/rubywork/myscrum/config/boot.rb:26: undefined method `cleanpathhe' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError) from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`gem\_original\_require’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' from /mydev/rubywork/myscrum/config/environment.rb:11 from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`gem\_original\_require’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/rails.rb:155:in`rails’ from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/ mongrel\_rails:112:in `cloaker_' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/configurator.rb:138:in`call’ … 6 levels… from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/command.rb:211:in `run' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/ mongrel_rails:243 from /opt/local/bin/mongrel_rails:16:in`load’ from /opt/local/bin/mongrel\_rails:16 /mydev/rubywork/myscrum/log$ ---
**Author:** ![Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@Pito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pito)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-cannot-connect-error-after-updating-using-ruby-and-rai/114996/4 "2007-09-19T17:35:50Z")
More info: I located the line in boot.rb where the error was happening, and copied the corresponding lines from the working hello world application: ``` if version = defined?(RAILS_GEM_VERSION) ? RAILS_GEM_VERSION : ``` rails\_gem\_version # Asking for 1.1.6 will give you 1.1.6.5206, if available – makes it easier to use beta gems rails\_gem = Gem.cache.search(‘rails’, “~\>#{version}.0”).sort\_by { |g| g.version.version }.last Now I get into the home page but of course I don’t know what other problems are introduced, or what caused it, or how to do a proper repair. Any further info would be greatly appreciated!