# Re: WEBrick initialisation problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-webrick-initialisation-problem/94452>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-webrick-initialisation-problem/94452 "2006-05-03T21:23:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![brianwisti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@brianwisti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brianwisti)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-webrick-initialisation-problem/94452/1 "2006-05-03T21:23:51Z")

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> > > Sent: 03 May 2006 17:40  
> > > To: ruby-talk ML  
> > > Subject: Re: WEBrick initialisation problem
> > > 
> > > On May 3, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Brian Watson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I am new to Ruby so I thought the best way to get into it would  
> > > > be to  
> > > > follow the ONLamp “Rolling with Ruby on Rails” intro. I followed  
> > > > the  
> > > > [2006-05-03 08:52:40] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1  
> > > > I have no WEBrick already, nor IIS or Apache or any other web server  
> > > > [http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com)

Thanks for the help see the result below since I am new to Ruby and  
don’t know what to expect I am afraid I don’t know what this means ☹

U:\ruby\>ruby -rsocket -e “TCPServer.new ‘localhost’, 3000”

U:\ruby\>

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**Author:** ![brianwisti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@brianwisti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brianwisti)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-webrick-initialisation-problem/94452/2 "2006-05-04T01:48:49Z")

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On May 3, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Brian Watson wrote:

> > > > Sent: 03 May 2006 17:40
> > > > 
> > > > > impressive:-).  
> > > > > [2006-05-03 08:52:40] WARN TCPServer Error: Bad file descriptor -
> > 
> > What does this do?
> > 
> > ruby -rsocket -e “TCPServer.new ‘localhost’, 3000”
> 
> Thanks for the help see the result below since I am new to Ruby and  
> don’t know what to expect I am afraid I don’t know what this means ☹
> 
> U:\ruby\>ruby -rsocket -e “TCPServer.new ‘localhost’, 3000”

It means that there’s nothing running on port 3000, so I suggest you  
take this up with the Rails mailing list.

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

[http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com)