On *nix systems, the file /etc/hosts contains the mapping from localhost to 127.0.0.1. It should contain a line like:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I do not know whether or not Mac uses the same file. On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:05:13 PM UTC-4, mike...@comcast.net wrote: > > The hard drive on my Macbook recently failed. A local shop replaced it > and restored data from the failing drive. Thereafter, I couldn't start the > the rails server on rails apps that previously had worked as expected. I > subsequently rebuilt rails 2.1.3 under rvm. Now, rails -s starts WEBrick > successfully, but I can only connect on 0.0.0.0:3000 rather than on > localhost:3000 as I from rails apps that allowed it just a couple of days > ago. I added the tzinfo-data gem as suggested on some related posts, but > still no joy. I'm running rails 4.1.6 on ruby 2.1.3p242 under 0SX 10.9.5. > Can anyone suggest how I might proceed from here? > > Regards, > > Mike > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/3411abd3-10ae-4ac9-864e-2b33cf7ab754%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.