Dashing fails silent on start up, how can I find out more information?

Question

I have installed dashing and set up a on a windows 8 machine, when I run

>dashing start

and navigate to http://localhost:3030 , chrome cannot load the page.

If I navigate to the directory I have dashing installed and start up a thin webserver by calling

>thin start -a 127.0.0.1 -p 3030

I'm able to get the site started and it returns Using rack adapter , but this is just hosting the site, not running dashing.

How can I find some diagnostic information about the dashing startup?

Answer 1

Some issues in the Dashing repo suggest using a different webserver, such as Webrick or Puma.

See Browser Support on Windows 7 , Widgets not animating in Windows 7 .

Are there any errors in the java console? The sample app fails silently for me on OSX when viewing with Chrome, with an error of "Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: \\"\\xE2\\" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8\\n (in my_project_dir/widgets/comments/comments.coffee)" , which turned out to be the left and right quotation marks in comments.coffee.