I have a Ruby on Rails application that I am deploying on a computer running Mac OS X 10.6. The code where the problem arises is run by a delayed_job. The problem only occur
To avoid this problem, we can bind to 127.0.0.1
instead of localhost
:
bin/rails server -b 127.0.0.1
I got the error while trying to develop while disconnected to the Internet. However, the website I was working on needs to be able to talk to some other websites, so it choked when it couldn't do so. Connecting to the internet fixed the error.
I was seeing this error unrelated to rails. It turned out my test was trying to use a port that was too high (greater than 65535).
This code will produce the error in question
require 'socket'
Socket.getaddrinfo("127.0.0.1", "65536")
If all of the above fails, try to convert to UNIX Line Endings, or do:
brew install dos2unix
sudo dos2unix -c mac /private/etc/hosts
Maybe the hosts encoding is wrong.
hope this helps
rest-client's RestClient
needs the http:
scheme when resolving the URL. It calls Net::HTTP
for you, which doesn't want the http:
part, but rest-client takes care of that.
Is the URL the actual one you are attempting to reach? example.org is a valid domain used for testing and documentation and is reachable; I'd expect the "api" and "api_endpoint" parts to fail and see that when I try to reach them.
require 'socket'
IPSocket.getaddress('example.org') # => "2620:0:2d0:200::10"
IPSocket.getaddress('api.example.org') # =>
# ~> -:7:in `getaddress': getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError)
# ~> from -:7:in `<main>'
Here's what I get using Curl:
greg-mbp-wireless:~ greg$ curl api.example.org/api_endpoint
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'api.example.org'
greg-mbp-wireless:~ greg$ curl example.org/api_endpoint
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /api_endpoint was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at example.org Port 80</address>
</body></html>
greg-mbp-wireless:~ greg$ curl example.org
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>Example Web Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<body>
<p>You have reached this web page by typing "example.com",
"example.net","example.org"
or "example.edu" into your web browser.</p>
<p>These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available
for registration. See <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt">RFC
2606</a>, Section 3.</p>
</BODY>
</HTML>
I fixed this problem simply by closing and reopening the Terminal.