# Rails 2.1.0 doesn't find my rails app

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-1-0-doesnt-find-my-rails-app/147315>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 30, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-1-0-doesnt-find-my-rails-app/147315 "2008-08-30T22:56:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![jfrankov](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jfrankov](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfrankov)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-1-0-doesnt-find-my-rails-app/147315/1 "2008-08-30T22:56:53Z")

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I’m upgrading from rails 1.2.3 to 2.1.0. I got all my 1.2.3 tests to  
pass in 2.1.0 with no deprecation warnings, renamed my views, replaced  
all the config files with a fresh “rails --force /path/to/app” and  
fired up mongrel. Problem is when I visit the homepage of my app,  
rails serves that default page that says “Ruby on Rails: Welcome  
Aboard”. It acts like it’s a brand new empty rails install, but all my  
code is right there inside of ./app. Anyone fixed this before? Systems  
are Fedora & Ubuntu Linuxes.

Thanks for any insights!

-Jason

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**Author:** ![jfrankov](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jfrankov](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfrankov)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-1-0-doesnt-find-my-rails-app/147315/2 "2008-08-30T23:23:13Z")

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On 30 Aug 2008, at 21:56, jfrankov [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> are Fedora & Ubuntu Linuxes.

I imagine it will have recreated the default index.html file, removing  
it should do the trick. It might also have overwritten routes.rb or  
things like that.

Fred