Webrick Starts but Page never not loads the first time

I'm able to start Webrick per the below results:

$ ruby script/server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server [2010-05-07 16:26:35] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2010-05-07 16:26:35] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11) [i386-cygwin] [2010-05-07 16:26:35] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=6496 port=3000

However when I go to http://localhost:3000/ the page never loads. It's continues to try to load but never completes (meaning I don't even get an error in connection message)

If I do a 'Ctrl+C' on the console, the server never exits or shutdowns.

What's interesting is that I then open another console and start Webrick again per the below results:

$ ruby script/server -p 8080 => Booting WEBrick => Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:8080 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server [2010-05-07 16:32:30] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2010-05-07 16:32:30] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11) [i386-cygwin] [2010-05-07 16:32:30] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=7800 port=8080

This time when I go to http://localhost:8080/ I get the 'Welcome Aboard' page indicating server is running. This all happens while the first console seems frozen after 'ctrl+C'. and the second console running webrick on port 8080.

I'm not sure if the ports have anything to do with the difference as I have tried 8080 first and 3000 second. In either case the second run of the webrick server works (port 3000) while the first run freezes (port 8080).

Why do I have to run the webserver twice to get the browser to indicate server is up and running?

Any ideas would be great to hear.

Thanks in advance.

I use Ubuntu 10.04, my webrick often gives Internal server error, i use Rails 2.3.3

I'm running windows xp at work where this problem occurs. However, it seems to work fine at home where I run windows 7. I have used mongrel as well and same problem occurs. What do you do when webrick giver internal server errors?