# Moving a project from windows to linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 4, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136 "2009-05-04T16:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scudco)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136/1 "2009-05-04T16:04:44Z")
How easy is it to do this. Is it simply a case of copying the project directory over to the linux directory or does one have to create a new project in the linux system and copy paste (due to the wonders of rails magic)??? ---
**Author:** ![scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scudco)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136/2 "2009-05-04T16:22:58Z")
Copy and paste does largely work. You just will need to install all of your gems and reconfigure for the DB you are using. On May 4, 10:04 am, Adam A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scudco)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136/3 "2009-05-04T16:30:37Z")
tashfeen.ekram wrote: > Copy and paste does largely work. You just will need to install all of > your gems and reconfigure for the DB you are using. You might also integrate your code into a version controller (git, svn, or Brand X), and then outegrate it on the target machine. Then, if the tests don’t pass, you can fix them on the windows machine, pass all tests, integrate, outegrate again, and try again… – Phlip [http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html](http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html) ---
**Author:** ![scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scudco)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136/4 "2009-05-04T16:42:29Z")
On 2009-05-04, Adam A. wrote: > How easy is it to do this. Is it simply a case of copying the project > directory over to the linux directory or does one have to create a new > project in the linux system and copy paste (due to the wonders of rails > magic)??? – Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). There’s really nothing special about it. You do have to make sure that it has access to the appropriate databases, the gems it is dependent upon are installed, and that the target server has the same version of Rails (unless you vendor it in vendor/rails). You might wan tto check out Capistrano for easier deployment, however, that way it can perform all the necessary steps automatically. I’d recommend running: rake gems:install rake db:create:all rake db:migrate That should be sufficient, I think. > – Brandon > **[Coming Soon](https://perpetualseeker.com/)** > > Something great is coming. Blog about college, programming, and other random things. Follow me on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/devbanana](http://twitter.com/devbanana) ---
**Author:** ![scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scudco)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136/5 "2009-05-04T17:47:43Z")
We develop on Windows/Mac and deploy to Linux servers with no changes. Make sure your environment.rb file is setup to specify the appropriate Rails version and that you also specify all the gems used by the application (using config.gem). That way, if your Linux machine is missing anything, you won’t be able to startup a Mongrel/Webrick server. On May 4, 7:40 am, “Brandon O.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@scudco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scudco)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-a-project-from-windows-to-linux/167136/6 "2009-05-05T15:12:00Z")
Hey Adam, Copying usually works, but is the dirty solution. I usually create the whole rails environment in the target machine and then just checkout the application as usual. Cheers, Sazima On May 4, 11:04 am, Adam A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)