Why does the rails server default to port 3000?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 8:23:29 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Haar wrote:
Why does the rails server default to port 3000?
It’s been like that since the first commit
(History for railties/dispatches/dispatch.servlet - rails/rails · GitHub)
so I expect you’d have to ask the man himself.
Fred
On most *nix systems, listening on a port below 1024 requires super-user
(root) access. All the ports above 1024 do not, removing the need to
execute the ruby command using root access.
As far as why 3000 specifically, I don’t believe it has any particular
significance, although you’d have to research back to the early days of
Rails to know if there was a specific compelling reason this port was
chosen as the default.
Typically you only use that in development, because in a production
environment you will have a web server like nginx that will operate on
the normal web port (80)
-Jason
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Jonathan Haar
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wrote:
Why does the rails server default to port 3000?
Because DHH decided so, that’s why!