rails server cannot start; getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError)

Question

I have not found a solution to the problem, however someone did already ask about the same problem a few days ago - (Rails Server Keeps Exiting (SocketError))

After

Answer 1

For any future users who run into this issue I was able to solve it by adding the following at the end of my private/etc/hosts file.

127.0.0.1 YOURNAME-MacBook-Pro.local

Update YOURNAME-MacBook-Pro to whatever the name of your machine is and hopefully you'll be all set.