# Create a work folder and a Rails project in Windows

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**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-work-folder-and-a-rails-project-in-windows/143365 "2008-07-17T18:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![olivia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@olivia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/olivia)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-work-folder-and-a-rails-project-in-windows/143365/1 "2008-07-17T18:32:11Z")

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I am new to RoR. I am running Windows. I heard Mac automatically  
generates “Sites” folder for you. But how do you create a work folder  
called “Sites” in Window Terminal?

I followed a tutorial that runs on Mac, the author did the following:

1. rails my\_app (create a rails app named my\_app)
2. mate my\_app (open TextMate)
3. cd my\_app (change dir into my\_app folder)
4. script/server (run server script) – booting Webrick  
…

I don’t have TextMate installed. I have SciTe. Can I type “SciTe  
ma\_app” instead??

Please help. Many thanks!

Olivia

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**Author:** ![olivia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@olivia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/olivia)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-work-folder-and-a-rails-project-in-windows/143365/2 "2008-07-17T18:44:30Z")

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On 17 Jul 2008, at 17:28, olivia wrote:

> I am new to RoR. I am running Windows. I heard Mac automatically  
> generates “Sites” folder for you. But how do you create a work folder  
> called “Sites” in Window Terminal?

There is a folder in hour home directory on a mac called Sites. It’s  
not magic though, it’s just a folder (and apache is setup to serve  
static files from it - ie not much good for rails)

> 

No idea, why don’t you try? All mate my\_app does is open that folder  
in textmate. You could just have easily have opened textmate and then  
picked ‘Open’ from the File menu (and I’m sure you can do that with  
SciTe). Either way it’s not an essential part of the workflow in any  
way.

Fred