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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Windows

Posted by Brandon Browning
Brandon Browning
11,989 Points

Why and when do you need to be connected to the Ruby server.

I was just wondering about the reasons as to why you connect to the server, when you connect to the server during the course of working on a project. I apologize for my ignorance in advance.

notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points

Are you asking in reference to the video, in which Jason runs the Ruby server then connects to it via localhost:3000?

Could you maybe reword your question? It's a little hard to understand exactly what you're asking.

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Ken Alger
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Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Brandon;

I would agree with Bryan about your question needing to be reworded.

If it helps, I keep my server environment up and running while I am working on projects to be able to quickly check my code's functionality. It is, for me, easier to add a new feature and test that one thing for errors and functionality rather than working on multiple things and then attempting to figure out which one of several new features caused an error or change in desired functionality. Without having a server up and running it would be difficult or impossible to test features. Further, when working with frameworks like Rails it is often necessary to access server related settings or files.