# Rails deployment

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-deployment/114503>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 13, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-deployment/114503 "2007-09-13T14:43:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Plack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Plack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Plack)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-deployment/114503/1 "2007-09-13T14:43:19Z")

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Hello,  
I want to deploy my RoR application on a apache tomcat server. I found  
a workthrough at  
[http://www.digitalsanctum.com/2007/07/24/jruby-deploying-a-rails-application-on-tomcat/](http://www.digitalsanctum.com/2007/07/24/jruby-deploying-a-rails-application-on-tomcat/)  
but I have problems with the goldspike plugin. When I try to execute  
“rake war:standalone:create” I always get the error:

\*\* Invoke war:standalone:create (first\_time)  
\*\* Invoke war:init (first\_time)  
\*\* Invoke environment (first\_time)  
\*\* Execute environment  
\*\* Execute war:init  
\*\* Execute war:standalone:create  
info: Assembling web application  
info: Packing needed Java libraries …  
info: Packing needed Ruby gems …  
info: Packing needed files …  
info: Creating web archive  
rake aborted!  
Error: failed to create archive, error code  
…/vendor/plugins/goldspike/lib/packer.rb:56:in `jar' ../vendor/plugins/goldspike/lib/packer.rb:190:in `create\_war’  
…/vendor/plugins/goldspike/lib/create\_war.rb:64:in `create_war' ../vendor/plugins/goldspike/lib/create_war.rb:47:in `create\_war\_file’  
…/vendor/plugins/goldspike/tasks/war.rake:24  
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:399:in `call' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:399:in `execute’  
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:399:in `each' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:399:in `execute’  
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:369:in `invoke' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:362:in `synchronize’  
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:362:in `invoke' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:1935:in `run’  
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:1935:in `each' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:1935:in `run’  
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/bin/rake:7  
C:\ruby\bin\rake:16:in `load' C:\ruby\bin\rake:16 -e:3:in `load’  
-e:3

has anyone an idea what that could be or how I can resolve this?  
I get this error for all my projects, also fo projects which are  
created fresh…

Thanks in advance  
Manfred

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**Author:** ![Plack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Plack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Plack)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-deployment/114503/2 "2007-09-17T10:13:14Z")

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