# Why wouldn't the server run?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-wouldnt-the-server-run/190642>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 24, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-wouldnt-the-server-run/190642 "2010-06-24T13:48:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-wouldnt-the-server-run/190642/1 "2010-06-24T13:48:09Z")

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I’m trying to run the server locally using the following command:

$ ruby script/serve

And, this is the trace of what I get: [http://pastie.org/1017034](http://pastie.org/1017034)

Where is the problem here?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-wouldnt-the-server-run/190642/2 "2010-06-24T13:58:50Z")

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it would appear that the probem is in your routes file!  
can you show us, your routes file?

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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-wouldnt-the-server-run/190642/3 "2010-06-24T14:23:58Z")

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Rui Carvalho wrote:

> it would appear that the probem is in your routes file!  
> can you show us, your routes file?

Thanks Rui.

You are absolutely right.

In my routes.rb files, I had a strange symbol (NOT rails symbols, I mean  
like a shape) before “map” in map.connect which was as “§map”.

I removed “§”, and it is working now.