On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Omar Moreno <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ever since I updated rails to 2.3.8, script/server exits right after it
> starts.

> [2010-05-29 18:14:58] WARN  TCPServer Error: Address already in use -
> bind(2)
> Exiting
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `initialize': Address
> already in use - bind(2) (Errno::EADDRINUSE)

It means exactly what it says: you have another process, probably
a previous instance of webrick, already running on the port that your
new instance is trying to bind to.

Find it and kill it.

`man netstat` might be of help if you have trouble figuring out which
process id is responsible.

HTH,
-- 
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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