mongo - ruby connection problem

Question

I have installed mongo and bson_ext now I have created a .rb file with the following contents ::

require \'rubygems\'
require \'mongo\'

db = Mongo::Connecti         


        

Answer 1

I just encountered this due to my /etc/hosts file not containing an entry for "localhost" - consequently Ruby couldn't resolve "localhost". I suppose you can hardcode 127.0.0.1 into your code rather than "localhost" - or fix /etc/hosts to contain:

127.0.0.1 localhost