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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ruby Socket Programming: No connection could be made error
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:53:30 +0200
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On 28.04.2012 12:45, Merhawi Fissehaye wrote:
> I am a beginner and I wanted to see how network programs are written in Ruby and I tried a sample Ruby code I found on the internet. There are two programs server.rb running in the background and client.rb trying to connect to my server program at the port number specific to the server program.
> I found the following error when running client.rb :
>
> client.rb:6:in 'initialize' : No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
>              from client.rb:6:in 'open'
>              from client.rb:6:in '<main>'

Could be any number of reasons from that you have misconfigured ports or 
the server is listening on 127.0.0.1 only which cannot be connected from 
a different machine or firewall blocking access...

Can you give more details, show the code?

> I am running the program from DOS

Are you serious about that?

Kind regards

	robert

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