newbie - WEbrick, config/routes.rb and multiple instances

[Iain Barnett]

Hi,

I've been going through the book Head First RoR, and in it I've been =
asked to make a tickets app, and then an events app.

So:

$ rails tickets
$ cd tickets
$ ruby script/generate scaffold ticket name:string seat_id_seq:string =
address:text price_paid:decimal email_address:string
$ rake db:migrate
$ ruby script/server

Then I can browse to http://localhost:3000/tickets

$ cd ..
$ rails events
$ cd events
$ ruby script/generate scaffold event artist:string description:text =
price_low:decimal price_high:decimal event_date:date
$ rake db:migrate

at this point if I browse to http://localhost:3000/tickets I can still =
see it, but if I go to http://localhost:3000/events then I get the =
following message:

Routing Error


No route matches "/events" with {:method=3D>:get}

If I stop the WEbrick server and start it from within the events dir I =
get the same error but for tickets. =46rom what I've been able to find =
out, the server is reading from config/routes.rb, but obviously it will =
take this from the dir that I started WEbrick from.


Is there a way I can get both apps to work at the same time, or do I =
have to start 2 separate instances of the server? Have I missed =
something obvious??

Any help or input is much appreciated. I'm running OSX 10.6 with Ruby =
1.9.1 and Rails 2.3.8

Iain=

 

[Josh Cheek]

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Hi,

I've been going through the book Head First RoR, and in it I've been asked
to make a tickets app, and then an events app.

So:

$ rails tickets
$ cd tickets
$ ruby script/generate scaffold ticket name:string seat_id_seq:string
address:text price_paid:decimal email_address:string
$ rake db:migrate
$ ruby script/server

Then I can browse to http://localhost:3000/tickets

$ cd ..
$ rails events
$ cd events
$ ruby script/generate scaffold event artist:string description:text
price_low:decimal price_high:decimal event_date:date
$ rake db:migrate

at this point if I browse to http://localhost:3000/tickets I can still see
it, but if I go to http://localhost:3000/events then I get the following
message:

Routing Error


No route matches "/events" with {:method=>:get}

If I stop the WEbrick server and start it from within the events dir I get
the same error but for tickets. From what I've been able to find out, the
server is reading from config/routes.rb, but obviously it will take this
from the dir that I started WEbrick from.


Is there a way I can get both apps to work at the same time, or do I have
to start 2 separate instances of the server? Have I missed something
obvious??

Any help or input is much appreciated. I'm running OSX 10.6 with Ruby
1.9.1 and Rails 2.3.8

Iain

When you do script/server, you can pass a port to run the application on.

In one terminal: $ cd tickets && script/server
In another terminal $ cd events && script/server -p 3001

Then in your browser, you can see tickets at localhost:3000/tickets
And you can see events at localhost:3001/events

By the way, check and make sure you read it correctly, because this is
almost certainly not what you want. Probably they wanted you to make two
different scaffolds, not two different applications.

 

[Hassan Schroeder]

I've been going through the book Head First RoR, and in it I've been asked to make a tickets app, and then an events app.

Is there a way I can get both apps to work at the same time, or do I have to start 2 separate instances of the server? Have I missed something obvious??

Yes to all of the above. You have 2 separate apps, so yes, you have
to start 2 servers to handle them.

You can run them simultaneously by configuring one to use a different
port.

 

[Josh Cheek]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

When you do script/server, you can pass a port to run the application on.

In one terminal: $ cd tickets && script/server
In another terminal $ cd events && script/server -p 3001

Then in your browser, you can see tickets at localhost:3000/tickets
And you can see events at localhost:3001/events

By the way, check and make sure you read it correctly, because this is
almost certainly not what you want. Probably they wanted you to make two
different scaffolds, not two different applications.

Oh, and this is a mailing list for the Ruby programming language, not the
Ruby on Rails web framework.
You'll probably have more luck at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

 

[Iain Barnett]

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Yes to all of the above. You have 2 separate apps, so yes, you have
to start 2 servers to handle them.
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You can run them simultaneously by configuring one to use a different
port.
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When you do script/server, you can pass a port to run the application = on.
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In one terminal: $ cd tickets && script/server
In another terminal $ cd events && script/server -p 3001
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Then in your browser, you can see tickets at localhost:3000/tickets
And you can see events at localhost:3001/events
=20
By the way, check and make sure you read it correctly, because this is
almost certainly not what you want. Probably they wanted you to make = two
different scaffolds, not two different applications.

Thanks for all the help. I had a look and the url's both use the same =
port and nothing is mentioned about using other ports. I checked the =
book's site for errata but didn't see anything.

=20
=20
Oh, and this is a mailing list for the Ruby programming language, not = the
Ruby on Rails web framework.
You'll probably have more luck at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk

Ok, thanks very much for pointing that out.

Iain=