# Ruby on Rails projects **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124 "2007-09-20T20:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MrSWatson)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124/1 "2007-09-20T20:25:18Z")
How do you fully delete a rails project? I have deleted the whole project in the rails application folder, but it does NOT delete the SQL and other files within the whole project. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? Or do I have to find every file it made and delete it manually? ---
**Author:** ![MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MrSWatson)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124/2 "2007-09-20T20:57:00Z")
Mr. Watson wrote: > How do you fully delete a rails project? I have deleted the whole > project in the rails application folder, but it does NOT delete the > SQL and other files within the whole project. Can anyone tell me how I > can do this? Or do I have to find every file it made and delete it > manually? So, when you type “rm -rf my\_app\_path/\*” it leaves stuff? What OS? How are you deleting it? ---
**Author:** ![MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MrSWatson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124/3 "2007-09-21T16:21:02Z")
I am simply going to the rails application folder, right clicking on the file, and deleting it (GUI). My OS is XP. Is this how I am suppose to delete it. ---
**Author:** ![MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MrSWatson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124/4 "2007-09-21T16:27:04Z")
Mr. Watson wrote: > I am simply going to the rails application folder, right clicking on > the file, and deleting it (GUI). My OS is XP. Is this how I am suppose > to delete it. Doing exactly that actually works for me - it deletes the folder and all files are gone. However, when I right-clicked on the name of the Rails application folder and clicked on ‘Properties’, I notice that it shows the ‘Read Only’ property in a partial grey indicating that some files may have the Read Only attribute set. Can you try to click on that to bring it to a proper black (indicating it is read only) and then again to clear that attribute. Try to delete it again after that. See if that helps. Cheers, Mohit. 9/21/2007 | 10:25 PM. ---
**Author:** ![MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MrSWatson)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124/5 "2007-09-22T16:20:23Z")
Hi Mr. Watson, Mr. Watson wrote: > I am simply going to the rails application folder, right clicking on > the file, and deleting it (GUI). My OS is XP. Is this how I am suppose > to delete it. Yes. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Best regards, Bill ---
**Author:** ![MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrSWatson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MrSWatson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-projects/115124/6 "2007-09-21T19:57:37Z")
I am deleting it by simple going into the rails application folder, right clicking on the folder, and deleting the folder. IS this wrong? Windows XP.