WEBrick: RequestURITooLarge: should I update or use a different server?

Question

I currently have:

$ rails s
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.0.9 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
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Answer 1

I see you've tried unicorn: have you tried running it through bundler? Add:

gem :unicorn

to your Gemfile and run:

bundle exec unicorn_rails

to start the server and browse to http://localhost:8080.

Answer 2

In Ruby 1.9.3. source, it says that MAX_URI_LENGTH = 2083. That means that the latest version of Webrick can't handle urls longer that this. And that's what the WEBrick::HTTPStatus::RequestURITooLarge exception is telling you.

The solution therefore is to use a different web server. One of the most favourite ones is Thin:

sudo gem install thin

cd to/your/rails/app

thin -h

thin -a localhost start

Answer 3

Like said here, you could change the MAX_URI_LENGTH using this code:

WEBrick::HTTPRequest.const_set("MAX_URI_LENGTH", 10240)