# Moving from linux to windows woes **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 15, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991 "2005-11-15T20:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/1 "2005-11-15T20:31:08Z")
Hi, Ik have a project in CVS in my linux box. Now I would like to work on it locally in my win xp machine. I checked out a copy on my windows box (which was hard enough getting svn over SSH to work properly, but anyways…) When I run ruby script/server nothing much happens: C:\railsapp\>ruby script/server =\> Booting WEBrick… C:\railsapp\> Browsing to localhost:3000 doesn’t work. I figured it may have something to do with the paths so I ran the rails command and overwrote the “scripts” directory. This made no difference at all. Help much appreciated! Jeroen ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/2 "2005-11-15T20:34:08Z")
Jeroen H. wrote: > Hi, > > Ik have a project in CVS in my linux box. Now I would like to work on > it locally in my win xp machine. FYI: I run 0.14.3 and ruby 1.8.2 on both boxes. Jeroen ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/3 "2005-11-15T20:55:21Z")
Jeroen H. wrote: > =\> Booting WEBrick… > > C:\railsapp\> > > Browsing to localhost:3000 doesn’t work. I figured it may have > something to do with the paths so I ran the rails command and > overwrote the “scripts” directory. This made no difference at all. It seems this line in environment.rb seems to cause a problem on windows… Player.image\_path = “/images/players/” After commenting out this line, the server starts normally. It would be nice if I could some better error message somewhere. There is no startup log for webrick or is there? I’ll investigate ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/4 "2005-11-15T21:31:38Z")
Based on a guess from your Player.image\_path code, you could be using RMagick to do things with images. You need to have the RMagick gem installed on your Windows machine - there is a binary install for this code that works great. Also, you need to make sure your end-of-line characters are correct for the different environments. If you save a script file with Windows EOLs, these won’t run on the linux machine. Subversion has a property setting to generate the correct thing for the given environment, CVS probably has a similar setting. ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/5 "2005-11-15T22:07:52Z")
Tom F. wrote: > Based on a guess from your Player.image\_path code, you could be using > RMagick to do things with images. Thanks Tom, you guessed right, I’m impressed 😉 Indeed that code loads the Player class which requires RMagick. I still think an error message should be thrown somewhere though… Should I file a bug report for this you reckon? I tried installing RMagick by downloading and installing the gem. Still have some problems getting it to work, it needs some bz2.dll file - I’ll need to investigate that. > Yes, it shouldn’t be too hard to get that worked out with SVN. Developing on windows and running on Linux is still not very straightforward if you ask me. Thanks again! Jeroen ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/6 "2005-11-15T22:14:02Z")
Jeroen H. wrote: > I tried installing RMagick by downloading and installing the gem. > Still have some problems getting it to work, it needs some bz2.dll > file - I’ll need to investigate that. Didn’t read the docs. I forgot to run the post install script. Works great now! Jeroen ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/7 "2005-11-15T22:14:05Z")
Hi First comment would be it should be ``` ruby script\server ``` But it appears that ‘something’ is happening. For what it’s worth I’ve been developing my current app under XP/OS X and Linux and have had no problems running between any of them. As long as my postgres settings were the same everything just ‘worked’. Ian ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/8 "2005-11-16T02:18:05Z")
Check your path to the ruby executable. I had to create a custom dispatch-win.fcgi for mine which used the second ruby path. With the latest version or Rails, it supposed to just grab the ENV path, and can use that instead, but I am not sure what version you are running. Warmest regards, Nathan. * * * Nathaniel S. H. Brown Toll Free 1.877.4.INIMIT Inimit Innovations Phone 604.724.6624 [www.inimit.com](http://www.inimit.com) Fax 604.444.9942 ---
**Author:** ![jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jeroen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeroen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-from-linux-to-windows-woes/47991/9 "2005-11-16T02:48:11Z")
Nathaniel S. H. Brown wrote: > Check your path to the ruby executable. > > I had to create a custom dispatch-win.fcgi for mine which used the second > ruby path. With the latest version or Rails, it supposed to just grab the > ENV path, and can use that instead, but I am not sure what version you are > running. Hi Nathan, It’s working okay now, even without changing the paths (0.14.3). I needed to install RMagick on my windows box. I would have found that out a lot sooner if some helpful error msg would have been thrown… Jeroen