# WEBrick just decided to take a hiatus on me

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-just-decided-to-take-a-hiatus-on-me/63968>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 20, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-just-decided-to-take-a-hiatus-on-me/63968 "2006-06-20T21:56:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damonh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-just-decided-to-take-a-hiatus-on-me/63968/1 "2006-06-20T21:56:50Z")

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Good day all.  
This is one of the most frustrating days I have had with Rails in quite  
some  
time now (almost 8 months actually).  
Yesterday I complete my development and testing and everything is  
peachy.  
I head home for the evening and do my things there.  
This morning, I come back in and do my typical morning routine of  
starting  
up eclipse and the usual “ruby script/server” command in windows.

The only problem this morning is all I get is a whole lot of nothing:  
=\> Booting WEBrick…

That is all she wrote.  
Nothing more, nothing less.  
No log output, absolutely freaking nothing.  
Now, what makes this most peculiar is that yesterday afternoon when I  
left  
the machine it worked beautifully.  
This morning, however, it dies.

I have uninstalled two plugins that I installed late yesterday afternoon  
and  
still to no avail.  
Those plugins where simple\_date\_select and datebox\_engine.  
I am running the following env:

XP Pro SP2  
Ruby 1.8.4  
Rails 1.1.2 with the following gems and versions  
actionmailer 1.2.1  
actionpack 1.12.1  
actionwebservices 1.1.2  
activerecord 1.14.2  
activesupport 1.3.1  
db\_structure 1.0.2  
localization\_generator 1.0.0  
money 1.7.1  
pdf-writer 1.1.2  
rake 0.7.1  
RedCloth 3.0.4  
SimpleSearch 0.5.0  
source 0.0.1  
transaction-simple 1.3.0  
Plugins  
active\_rbac  
dialog\_helper  
dollars\_and\_cents  
engines  
flash\_helper  
query\_trace

Does anyone have any idea why all of a sudden that things would just  
croak  
on my box?

Thanks in advance,

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**Author:** ![damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damonh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-just-decided-to-take-a-hiatus-on-me/63968/2 "2006-06-20T23:23:15Z")

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Humor me here…  
Create a new rails app and then start webrick on that new app. Let me  
know  
what happens.

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**Author:** ![damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damonh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-just-decided-to-take-a-hiatus-on-me/63968/3 "2006-06-20T23:52:32Z")

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Damon H. wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea why all of a sudden that things would just  
> croak  
> on my box?

When that’s happened to me, it was because I had other instances of  
webrick running that didn’t know about. I went to task manager and  
killed every instance of ruby.exe, then ran ruby script\server again and  
it started working.

I think sometimes the port doesn’t get closed, and then running webrick  
on that same port causes it to hang sometimes.

Jeff

> **[Hey Daddio!](http://softiesonrails.com)**
>
> Home of Hey Daddio Software

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**Author:** ![damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@damonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damonh)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-just-decided-to-take-a-hiatus-on-me/63968/4 "2006-06-21T15:01:45Z")

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Brian consider yourslef humored.  
I created a new Rails app, and of course, WEBrick started right up. No  
problems.  
So now the question is, what changed and how in the world do I get out  
put  
to let me trace this and find out where the issue is.  
I mean, unfortunately, no offense or anything, but

=\> Booting WEBrick…

doesn’t really do much for me.  
Is there a log file I am missing?

Thanks again for the help,