Looks like a patch was submitted for this error many people were getting when trying to boot webrick on windows. The error having to do with the rake tmp:create in the server.rb. Hopping on edge rails from now on should get you this new patch (patch -> http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4139) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060310/d8bf4371/attachment-0001.html