# Instant rails - need a bit of help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-need-a-bit-of-help/58127>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 18, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-need-a-bit-of-help/58127 "2006-04-18T18:57:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Helen\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Helen\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Helen_M)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-need-a-bit-of-help/58127/1 "2006-04-18T18:57:16Z")

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Hiya everyone,

I’ve downloaded instant rails and have made a application on my machine  
which is local. I need to now move this onto my university space so I  
can demostrate it in a few weeks time…only i’m not really sure how I do  
it?

Would anybody be able to offer me some advice, or point me in some  
direction where I could find out.

Many thanks in advance!

Helen

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**Author:** ![Helen\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Helen\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Helen_M)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-need-a-bit-of-help/58127/2 "2006-04-18T21:08:38Z")

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Hi Helen, if you want to move you Rails application onto a public  
server for demonstration you will need to make sure that the server  
supports Rails, that is a Windows/Linux/Unix/OSX server with at least  
ruby and rails installed, a web server and ideally FastCGI, SCGI or  
Mongrel.  
You can ask your university IT department to find out if they do, if  
not, your second next bet is to find a hosting company that does so  
you can deploy your Rails application with them. I use Dreamhost and  
they pretty good (google “Rails + Dreamhost” to find more) but that  
will cost you at least 8 bucks a month to get the minimum package I  
think, a bit expensive for demonstration only I suppose…  
If you have a broadband connection you can also consider opening the  
port 80 from your ADSL router and redirect HTTP traffic to your local  
PC, hence people can reach your Rails application using you Broadband  
IP, that should be OK for demonstration purposes.

My 2 cents ?

Gael

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**Author:** ![Helen\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Helen\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Helen_M)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-need-a-bit-of-help/58127/3 "2006-04-18T21:12:15Z")

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On 4/18/06, Helen M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Helen

I’m assuming you are going to install Instant Rails in your university  
space and you are asking how to move the application you wrote.

There are two things you need to move: your application code, and any  
data that you have stored in MySQL for that app.

The code part is easy, just copy the entire directory tree of your  
Rails app from your current “rails\_apps” subdirectory to the  
“rails\_apps” subdirectory on the university machine.

For the data, you can either export the database and then import it  
into the university copy of Instant Rails, or if that is the only data  
you have in your database, you could just copy the “mysql\data”  
subdirectory of Instant Rails to the university installation.

Curt