# Newbie - Is BackgrounDRb compatible on windows?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-is-backgroundrb-compatible-on-windows/139577>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 5, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-is-backgroundrb-compatible-on-windows/139577 "2008-06-05T03:31:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![procyon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@procyon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/procyon)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-is-backgroundrb-compatible-on-windows/139577/1 "2008-06-05T03:31:46Z")

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I searched online but couldn’t find it. Even BackgrounDRb does not  
specify platform compatibility. Earlier version of BackgrounDRb ( \<  
0.2 ) were incompatible with windows. The current version of  
BackgrounDRb is 1.3. If anybody had any luck running this library on  
windows machine ?

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**Author:** ![procyon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@procyon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/procyon)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-is-backgroundrb-compatible-on-windows/139577/2 "2008-06-05T04:59:04Z")

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Backgroundrb cannot be used on windows. May I recommend trying:

[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/bj/trunk/README](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/bj/trunk/README)

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**Author:** ![procyon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@procyon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/procyon)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-is-backgroundrb-compatible-on-windows/139577/3 "2008-10-24T06:04:09Z")

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Nathan E. wrote:

> Backgroundrb cannot be used on windows. May I recommend trying:
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> [http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/bj/trunk/README](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/bj/trunk/README)

Hello,  
If you want to trying to run Backgroundrb on windows.

Use CYGWIN on windows and run Backgroundrb through CYGWIN command  
Prompt.

Purab