# Question on Hosting and Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-hosting-and-rails/169145>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 30, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-hosting-and-rails/169145 "2009-05-30T02:00:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-hosting-and-rails/169145/1 "2009-05-30T02:00:58Z")

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My current host is [gatorhost.com](http://gatorhost.com). They use Ruby 1.85 and rails 2.3.2

I use Ruby 1.9.1 and rails 2.3.2.

Will I have a problem with any of my rails environment apps if I use  
them on my hosted domain?

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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-hosting-and-rails/169145/2 "2009-05-30T02:40:05Z")

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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, J. D.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> My current host is [gatorhost.com](http://gatorhost.com). They use Ruby 1.85 and rails 2.3.2
> 
> I use Ruby 1.9.1 and rails 2.3.2.
> 
> Will I have a problem with any of my rails environment apps if I use  
> them on my hosted domain?

Murphy’s Law sez: yes.

If it were me, I’d set up a VM with the same configuration as the host  
you’re deploying to and at least pre-deploy to it and _run your tests_.

Then, if it fails in production, you know what new tests to write. 🙂

## FWIW,

Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-hosting-and-rails/169145/3 "2009-05-30T05:28:30Z")

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Good idea - thanks mate