Webrick across network

Rails
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I do my development on a Linux box. I’d like to test my code on a
Windows box running IE - as that is what most of my users will have. The
problem is that I can’t access the Webrick server on my Linux box from
another computer on the network. It just can’t connect.

I’m guessing that there is some configuration I’m missing - but I can’t
find it. Can someone offer some help?

Thanks in Advance
—Michael

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Michael S. wrote:

Michael,
I can think of two things to check (probably obvious, yet I thought
I will mention them):
a) Make sure you can ping the Linux box from the windows machine.
Someimes one way works, but not the other way.
b) Also make sure Webrick is using 0.0.0.0:3000 and not
127.0.0.1:3000
Cheers

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Krishna Sankar wrote:

Michael S. wrote:

b) Also make sure Webrick is using 0.0.0.0:3000 and not

127.0.0.1:3000

This sounds promising. I’m not sure where the configuration for Webrick
IS. I’ve even grepped for 3000 figuring that if there’s a
configuration somewhere, it has to have the port in it.

Where can I find / change the Webrick configuration?

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Try running the script/server command with -h

That prints:

Usage: server [options]
-p, --port=port Runs Rails on the specified port.
Default: 3000
-b, --binding=ip Binds Rails to the specified ip.
Default: 0.0.0.0
-d, --daemon Make server run as a Daemon.
-e, --environment=name Specifies the environment to run
this server under (test/development/production).
Default: development

-h, --help                       Show this help message.

Something you might want to check: set your binding IP, your Port,
and make sure your Firewall rules will allow the incoming connection.

Hope this helps -

Dave
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On Jul 20, 8:01 am, Michael S. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-