# Broken path from Mac to Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/broken-path-from-mac-to-windows/90541>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 29, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/broken-path-from-mac-to-windows/90541 "2007-03-29T19:46:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![William\_Fawcett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@William\_Fawcett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/William_Fawcett)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/broken-path-from-mac-to-windows/90541/1 "2007-03-29T19:46:21Z")

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I’ll start with the obvious, I am a RoR noob, but I have an issue that I  
need a more experienced pair of eyes to look at. I am working with an  
application that was originally developed in a Mac OS X environment that  
i am trying to get working in a windows Environment. is that I can get  
the standard “Welcome Aboard” page, but when I attempt to use any thing  
from the app it gives me the dreaded

"Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html

Application error (Apache)  
Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action  
(like in  
Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

I look at the log/development.log and the top line is aways  
Expected C:/sandbox/workspaces/mycom/myapp/config/…/app/apis/myapp.rb  
to define myAppApi

the strange thing is that myapp.rb is exactly where it should be!!!

Is this a pathing incompatibility between Mac and Windows? could the  
parent(…) reference be the cause?

-Will

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**Author:** ![William\_Fawcett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@William\_Fawcett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/William_Fawcett)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/broken-path-from-mac-to-windows/90541/2 "2007-03-29T20:55:16Z")

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Hi William,

William Fawcett wrote:

> I look at the log/development.log and the top line is aways  
> Expected C:/sandbox/workspaces/mycom/myapp/config/…/app/apis/myapp.rb

Windows software is supposed to handle ‘/’, but the fact is that some  
Windows software doesn’t. I’d start by using Mongrel or Webrick instead  
of  
Apache to serve your app and see if that makes a difference.

hth,  
Bill