Ruby on Rails can't connect to localhost:3000, 127.0.0.1:3000 and 0.0.0.0:3000 on Windows

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I'm a total newbie learning Ruby on Rails and using a Windows machine. The steps used to install ruby on rails were:

download ruby200-x64 installer for Windows
then run the following commands
- ruby dk.rb init
- ruby dk.rb install
- gem install bundler
- gem install sqlite3
- gem install rails
- rails new testapp
- cd testapp
- bundle exec rails server which means that I ran rails server in the testapp folder and part of the output says this:
  - Booting WEBrick
  - Rails 4.1.1 application starting in development on 0.0.0.0:3000
  - Run rails server -h for more startup options
  - Notice: server is listening on all interfaces 0.0.0.0. Consider using 127.0.0.1
  - Ctrl-C to shutdown server
  - Exiting
  - C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/tzinfo-1.2.1/lib/tzinfo/data_source.rb: No source of timezone data could be found. Please refer to http://tzinfo.github.io/datasourcenotfound for help resolving this error
  - Follow by more lines of codes (sorry, didn't have enough reputation points to post an image.
Finally when I tried to connect to localhost:3000, 127.0.0.1:3000, or 0.0.0.0:3000. None worked. Any ideas? I'm guessing it has to do something with the Exiting line.

Hey welcome to StackOverflow! Don't worry about posting extra code - in fact it's much better than posting an image (because then people can copy/paste bits to reply to). — Taryn East, Jun 05 '14 at 04:24
possible duplicate of [TZInfo::DataSourceNotFound error starting Rails v4.1.0 server on Windows](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23022258/tzinfodatasourcenotfound-error-starting-rails-v4-1-0-server-on-windows) — Phil Ross, Jun 17 '14 at 07:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '14 at 04:02

The error indicates that TZInfo was unable to find a source of time zone data on your system. This will typically occur if you are using Windows.

Try to install tzinfo-data gem by editing Gemfile and put gem 'tzinfo-data' and run bundle install

Or to use the ruby modules as the data source, running by

gem install tzinfo-data

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