Losing...
the will to live...
must...
have...
useful stack traces...
I wish Ruby were as useful as Perl. I wish the following had the arguments like I'd get from any perl program using Carp. I also wish this code had just used perror(3) so it'd report the ordinary message "Address already in use" instead of making up its own message "no acceptor."
>> Thin web server (v1.2.2 codename I Find Your Lack of Sauce Disturbing) >> Maximum connections set to 1024 >> Listening on 127.0.0.1:8859, CTRL+C to stop Failed to start the service RuntimeError no acceptor /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:565:in `start_tcp_server' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:565:in `start_server' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.2/lib/thin/backends/tcp_server.rb:16:in `connect' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.2/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:49:in `start' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:242:in `call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:242:in `run_machine' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:242:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.2/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:57:in `start' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.2/lib/thin/server.rb:156:in `start' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-1.2.2/lib/thin/controllers/controller.rb:80:in `start' ./basic.rb:68 ./basic.rb:51:in `initialize' ./basic.rb:51:in `new' ./basic.rb:51
