# How to make a 126 rails project when 2.02 is installed with windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 18, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125 "2008-04-18T07:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/1 "2008-04-18T07:18:26Z")
How do I make a 126 rails project when 2.02 is installed? I posted this question and got this answer: You can generate a NEW rails 1.2.6 project like this $rails _1.2.6_ myproject That will probably work on a linix machine, but I couldn’t get it go on XP, at least not for 1.2.3 I finally got it to work. I needed a rails 1.2.3 app so I did this: gem install rails -v=1.2.3 which on my machine, installed in rails 1.2.3 in C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.3 cd to C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.3 then rails C:\rails\_projects\_dir\my\_app\_name Which created the rails app my\_app\_name in the directory named C: \rails\_projects\_dir Good luck ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/2 "2008-04-18T11:46:18Z")
No, that did’nt work. I got a 2.02 project crap ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/3 "2008-04-18T14:33:56Z")
OK, I got it just CD to the dir in which you want the project, like normal and run: ruby C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.3\bin\rails my\_project Then rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1-2-3 viola If I run Rails -v I get 2.0.2 but when I run ruby script/server the page says 123 fun stuff ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/4 "2008-04-18T14:58:04Z")
Actually it’s way simpler than that. Make sure you have the latest rubygems and that you have rails 1.2.6 gems installed gem update --system gem install rails -v=1.2.6 Then create a new project with Rails 1.2.6 rails _1.2.6_ my\_project Then freeze if desired. The _x.y.z_ parameter tells Rubygems which version should be used. ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/5 "2008-04-18T23:30:23Z")
Thanks but… Not trying to be a jerk however I tried that about 40 times over two hours with every variation imaginable. rails\_1.2.3\_ my\_project rails\_1-2-3\_ my\_project rails\_123\_ my\_project rails\_1.2.3 my\_project rails TAG=rel\_1-2-3 my\_project (made a project named “TAG=rel\_1-2-3”) If you can think of it, I tried it The point of my post was that what you describe doesn’t work. At least not for me, on Windows XP with version 1.2.3 On Apr 17, 9:26 pm, “Brian H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > ruby C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.3\bin\rails my\_project > > > > > I posted this question and got this answer: > > > > which on my machine, installed in rails 1.2.3 in > > > > C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.3 > > > > > cd to C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.3 > > > > then > > > > rails C:\rails\_projects\_dir\my\_app\_name > > > > > Which created the rails app my\_app\_name in the directory named C: > > > > \rails\_projects\_dir > > > ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/6 "2008-04-19T03:48:57Z")
@Rails Freak: I tried it with six versions of the framework installed (2.0.2, 2.0.1, 1.2.6, 1.2.5, 1.2.4, 1.2.2), Ruby 1.8.6, Windows XP. It worked the first time and every time. railsversionapp\_name rails _1.2.2_ test … test/config/environment.rb # Be sure to restart your web server when you modify this file. # Uncomment below to force Rails into production mode when # you don’t control web/app server and can’t set it the proper way # ENV[‘RAILS\_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘1.2.2’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION … (Note the GEM\_VERSION ^^^ ) ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/7 "2008-04-19T04:45:46Z")
AndyV Sure as hell, It worked as you say I was missing the space between rails and _1.2.3._ My face is red now ---
**Author:** ![rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rubyfreak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfreak)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-a-126-rails-project-when-2-02-is-installed-with-windows/135125/8 "2008-04-19T03:56:34Z")
Just in case this helps, here’s the contents of your c:\ruby\bin \rails: * * * #!C:/ruby/bin/ruby # # This file was generated by RubyGems. # # The application ‘rails’ is installed as part of a gem, and # this file is here to facilitate running it. # ## require ‘rubygems’ version = “\> 0” if ARGV.first =~ /^_(.\*)_$/ and Gem::Version.correct? $1 then version = $1 ARGV.shift end gem ‘rails’, version load ‘rails’ Check out the line below: version = “\> 0” They’re parsing the first argument and looking for a string beginning and ending with underscores. If it exists then it’s checked to see if it’s a valid Gem version. If that’s true (ie., you have that version of the gem installed) then a rails app of that version is created.