# Rails default app not loading **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127 "2007-12-25T06:05:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lillyanka)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127/1 "2007-12-25T06:05:28Z")
Hi! I was wondering if someone could maybe help me out. I’m just starting to learn Rails, and I’m doing this tutorial: > **[Radar - O’Reilly](https://www.oreilly.com/radar/)** > > Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology The thing is, I started doing it at work, and it worked fine, but when I got home and tried to do it all over again, I couldn’t get the app to load on firefox!! (figure 8), I just got "Unable to connect’ I can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong, or what I can do to fix this. Can anyone help me? ---
**Author:** ![lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lillyanka)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127/2 "2007-12-25T09:21:27Z")
Lilliana V. wrote: > Hi! I was wondering if someone could maybe help me out. I’m just > starting to learn Rails, and I’m doing this tutorial: > [Radar – O’Reilly](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html) > > The thing is, I started doing it at work, and it worked fine, but when I > got home and tried to do it all over again, I couldn’t get the app to > load on firefox!! (figure 8), I just got "Unable to connect’ > > I can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong, or what I can do to fix this. > Can anyone help me? this could be a million reasons; i don’t think anyone’s gonna answer (just because from the info alone, nothing can be gathered) try posting the error stack trace or some debugged rails log info or something like that hope it works out for ya ---
**Author:** ![lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lillyanka)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127/3 "2007-12-25T17:00:40Z")
On Dec 24, 9:05 pm, Lilliana V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > The thing is, I started doing it at work, and it worked fine, but when I > got home and tried to do it all over again, I couldn’t get the app to > load on firefox!! (figure 8), I just got "Unable to connect’ Do you have a Web server (WEBrick, mongrel, etc.) running at home? ///ark ---
**Author:** ![lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lillyanka)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127/4 "2007-12-25T18:04:56Z")
Lilliana V. wrote: > Hi! I was wondering if someone could maybe help me out. I’m just > starting to learn Rails, and I’m doing this tutorial: > [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html) > > The thing is, I started doing it at work, and it worked fine, but when I > got home and tried to do it all over again, I couldn’t get the app to > load on firefox!! (figure 8), I just got "Unable to connect’ > > I can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong, or what I can do to fix this. > Can anyone help me? i am also just starting to learn Rails…and that tutorial was one of the many I tried… and I have to tell you that most of the tutorials out there like the one u provided will not work 100% with rails 2.0 ~ experienced it first hand =X ---
**Author:** ![lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lillyanka)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127/5 "2007-12-26T07:00:11Z")
On Dec 24, 11:05 pm, Lilliana V. \ wrote: > Hi! I was wondering if someone could maybe help me out. I’m just > starting to learn Rails, and I’m doing this tutorial:[Radar – O’Reilly](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html) > > The thing is, I started doing it at work, and it worked fine, but when I > got home and tried to do it all over again, I couldn’t get the app to > load on firefox!! (figure 8), I just got "Unable to connect’ The most probably reason is that the newest version of Rails is 2.0, this tutorial is written for 1.2. Outstanding tutorials are yet to come for 2.0 (AFAIK). To play with version 1.2, do this from the command line (NOTE: uninstalls rails 2 and installs rails 1.2) gem uninstall rails gem install rails -v 1.2.6 If it still doesn’t work, or you want to play with 2.0 anyway: Run the server (script/server). After it starts, copy and paste what it prints out to the command line into this thread. That may tell us if there’s an error with the booting process – which is what I suspect. – Travis ---
**Author:** ![lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lillyanka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lillyanka)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-default-app-not-loading/124127/6 "2007-12-27T22:25:21Z")
Mark W. wrote: > Do you have a Web server (WEBrick, mongrel, etc.) running at home? > > ///ark Heehee. I forgot to say I’m using InstantRails, so I’m actually using Mongrel. I’m using IR because I couldn’t install rails as a gem from the CMD for some reason. I’m going to give this another try when I get home and then I’ll report whatever result I get. Thanks for replying, everyone! * * * Lilly