Rails server hanging even with even freshly created app

Question

My rails server started hanging today, so I tried running different apps to see if the issue was caused by my app, even created an empty app and with that even the default page doesn't come up.

I've been using it as just an http server, testing front-end with adding files into the public folder, so, I don't even compile any actual ruby code, just plain HTML, CSS and JS.

When I try to browse localhost:3000, the page is unresponsive, I can't even view source and I'd like to add that this happens with Chrome, Safari, IE and Edge, so I don't think it's a caching issue on the browser front.

I tried running the server on a specific ip and port, also tried the 0.0.0.0 trick mentioned on some other questions, doesn't help me so far.

I'm using ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-darwin15] and Rails 4.2.5.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Well, I ended up resolving the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling the whole stack. Couldn't find the reason behind the issue but if you get stuck with the same problem, apparently a complete reinstall fixes it...