# Rails on Windows 98? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 18, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006 "2007-02-18T22:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/1 "2007-02-18T22:54:50Z")
I just asked this on instiki-devel [http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/instiki-devel/2007-February/000039.html](http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/instiki-devel/2007-February/000039.html) is there any way to run Rails 1.2.2 on Windows 98? It looks like Rails 1.1.2 is the last to run on Win98 [http://forum.rubyonbr.org/forums/1/topics/216?page=2](http://forum.rubyonbr.org/forums/1/topics/216?page=2) any more information on that? Can’t Rails be patched to work again on MS Windows98 and similar? Is this just the session store? thanks for any hints, Matthias T. ---
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/2 "2007-02-18T23:26:22Z")
Not worth the effort to patch for an OS that the company that makes it doesn’t even support anymore. On 2/18/07, Matthias T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is this just the session store? > > thanks for any hints, > Matthias T. > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Thanks, -Steve [http://www.stevelongdo.com](http://www.stevelongdo.com) ---
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/3 "2007-02-19T00:11:26Z")
Steve L. wrote: > Not worth the effort to patch for an OS that the company that makes it > doesn’t even support anymore. Try CygWin - it supports everything back to Win95. All the Ruby and Rails code should see a normal GNU/POSIX environment… – Phlip [Redirecting...](http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!! ---
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/4 "2007-02-19T00:19:27Z")
I can’t help but ask… why? On 2/18/07, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Phlip > [Redirecting...](http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!! > > > – EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee) ---
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/5 "2007-02-19T00:21:27Z")
Carl L. wrote: > I can’t help but ask… why? Why what? Why not polish the hard drive and give this long-suffering hardware a break, with a modern Linux distro? I dunno… – Phlip [Redirecting...](http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!! ---
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/6 "2007-02-19T01:31:09Z")
Carl L. wrote: > Sorry, I meant to quote the original email (not yours) and couldn’t > help to wonder why one would try to get rails running on windows 98. I’m trying to have instiki ( [http://instiki.org](http://instiki.org) ) available on the most platforms possible. some people i know of are using instiki on old windows versions (even windows95). since the current (stable) instiki version runs perfectly on win98 i am thinking if version 0.12 should break the chain. that’s the main reason why i wanted to know if there is a chance to run rails 1.2 on win98. if there isn’t any, i will make one last old-windows bugfix release. -matthias ---
**Author:** ![parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@parasew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parasew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows-98/86006/7 "2007-02-19T00:26:28Z")
Sorry, I meant to quote the original email (not yours) and couldn’t help to wonder why one would try to get rails running on windows 98. -carl On 2/18/07, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – > Phlip > [Redirecting...](http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!! > > > – EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee)