Ruby TCP chat server - ruby

Question

Recently Iv'e been trying to program a simple TCP server to later build into a chat room. But every time I launch the server (server.rb), and then I try to use the client (client.rb) I get this error:
Sam#ANDERSAMERPC C:\Users\Sam\Documents\Coding
> client.rb
C:/Users/Sam/Documents/Coding/client.rb:6:in `initialize': No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. - connect(2) for "localhost" port 2001 (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
from C:/Users/Sam/Documents/Coding/client.rb:6:in `open'
from C:/Users/Sam/Documents/Coding/client.rb:6:in `<main>'
I am using CMD to run this and I've tried turning off firewall briefly.
Here is the code for both of the programs...
This is server.rb
require 'socket'
server = TCPServer.open(2000) # Socket to listen on port 2000
loop {
Thread.start(server.accept) do |client|
client.puts(Time.now.ctime) # Send time to the client
client.puts "Closing connection. Bye!"
client.close
end
}
Here's client.rb:
require 'socket'
hostname = "localhost"
port = 2000
s = TCPSocket.open(hostname, port)
while line = s.gets # Reads lines from socket
puts line.chop # And print with platform line terminator
end
s.close # Close socket when done
(This code is from http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_socket_programming.htm just so you know.)

Answer 1

I guess there are 2 options:
Run your server.rb before client.rb.
Are you sure those are the exact same files that you are running. Because the error message says it can not connect to port 2001, whereas in both of your files they refer to 2000. Is it possible that you are editing and running different files? You will be surprised, how common this is here on SO :)