# Running rails on windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-on-windows/48690>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 23, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-on-windows/48690 "2005-11-23T15:09:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/848f3c/32.png) [@orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/orlando_myers)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-on-windows/48690/1 "2005-11-23T15:09:28Z")

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Is anyone running RoR on windows? if so what version for windows 2003  
stanadard edition and will ROR affect any other service / software on  
the  
box?

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**Author:** ![orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/848f3c/32.png) [@orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/orlando_myers)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-on-windows/48690/2 "2005-11-23T15:29:11Z")

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**Author:** ![orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/848f3c/32.png) [@orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/orlando_myers)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-on-windows/48690/3 "2005-11-23T16:14:20Z")

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Yes, a couple on this list have experince with running Rails on Windows  
2003. IIS is able to run rails through FastCGI and doing this shouldn’t  
affect anything else on the system as far as I know. Dont really see how  
it  
would, but you never know. You could also install Apache and do things  
that  
way. Its up to you, but it does run on Windows.

-Nick

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**Author:** ![orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/848f3c/32.png) [@orlando\_myers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/orlando_myers)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-on-windows/48690/4 "2005-11-23T20:00:17Z")

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some links if you want RoR on IIS (otherwise you can use webrick):

[http://www.bitslapped.nl/articles/2005/06/05/rails-on-windows-2003](http://www.bitslapped.nl/articles/2005/06/05/rails-on-windows-2003)  
[http://bitmask.co.uk/ruby-on-rails.html](http://bitmask.co.uk/ruby-on-rails.html)  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyforapache/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyforapache/)  
[http://www.caraveo.com/fastcgi/](http://www.caraveo.com/fastcgi/)  
[http://rubyforiis.sosukodo.org/](http://rubyforiis.sosukodo.org/)