# Web app developed in WInXP want to run on Linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 3, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-app-developed-in-winxp-want-to-run-on-linux/62352 "2006-06-03T00:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learningruby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-app-developed-in-winxp-want-to-run-on-linux/62352/1 "2006-06-03T00:17:02Z")
Hi All, I have developed a web application using RoR on Window-XP. Now my server is on linux and want to get this running on linux machine. I tried starting the server but it failed to boot in boot.rb at this line: unless RUBY\_PLATFORM =~ /mswin32/ require ‘pathname’ root\_path = Pathname.new(root\_path).cleanpath(true).to\_s end so I changed(even though the file says not to do any changes) mswin32 to linux. Again the server didn’t boot and failed at: ./script/…/config/boot.rb:18:in `require': No such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError) from ./script/../config/boot.rb:18 from script/server:2:in`require’ from script/server:2 So I thought if there is any one time change I can make so that I don’t have to make these changes in installments? Is there any better way of deploying Win-Xp RoR on Linux? Please help! Thanks ---
**Author:** ![learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learningruby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-app-developed-in-winxp-want-to-run-on-linux/62352/2 "2006-06-03T00:47:09Z")
> Again the server didn’t boot and failed at: > ./script/…/config/boot.rb:18:in `require’: No such file to load – > rubygems (LoadError) The error says the problem is with boot.rb on line 18. In my boot.rb file the part you’ve identified occurs at the beginning of the file (around lines 5-8) and the lines around 18 deal with loading rubygems and initializer. I’m guessing that rubygems has not been correctly installed (or isn’t present) on your Linux box. Can you confirm or deny by trying to issue a ‘gem list --local’ command and confirm that you don’t get an error? – DeLynn B. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > **[DeLynn Berry](https://delynnberry.com)** ---
**Author:** ![learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learningruby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-app-developed-in-winxp-want-to-run-on-linux/62352/3 "2006-06-03T03:39:56Z")
> So I thought if there is any one time change I can make so that I don’t > have to make these changes in installments? Is there any better way of > deploying Win-Xp RoR on Linux? Here’s the trick: 1. on Linux, run rails myapp 2. cd myapp 3. rm -rf app 4. copy your myapp/app folder from the win32 version to the linux version 5. repeat 2-4 for other folders you have that have different content from the default rails app (for instance, public/images, public/stylesheets, etc) It should run now. If you have version control for your windows app, you’ll be even better off. ---
**Author:** ![learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learningruby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-app-developed-in-winxp-want-to-run-on-linux/62352/4 "2006-06-05T16:53:34Z")
Thanks DeLynn and Bryan for your reply. I have the below dir structure /ruby/bin erb gem gem\_mirror gem\_server gemwhich generate\_yaml\_index.rb irb rails rake rdoc ri ruby testrb update\_rubygems /scratch/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems actionmailer-1.1.1 actionpack-1.12.1 actionwebservice-1.1.2 activerecord-1.14.2 activesupport-1.3.1 rails-1.1.2 rake-0.7.1 sources-0.0.1 This makes me beleive that I have gem…But than I’m not able to do the ‘gem list --local’ or gem -v or any other commmands. What does this mean? Is it that gems is not installed properly? Any help is appreciated! DeLynn B. wrote: > > Again the server didn’t boot and failed at: > > ./script/…/config/boot.rb:18:in `require’: No such file to load – > > rubygems (LoadError) > > The error says the problem is with boot.rb on line 18. In my boot.rb > file the part you’ve identified occurs at the beginning of the file > (around lines 5-8) and the lines around 18 deal with loading rubygems > and initializer. I’m guessing that rubygems has not been correctly > installed (or isn’t present) on your Linux box. > > Can you confirm or deny by trying to issue a ‘gem list --local’ > command and confirm that you don’t get an error? > > – > DeLynn B. > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://delynnberry.com](http://delynnberry.com) ---
**Author:** ![learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@learningruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learningruby)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-app-developed-in-winxp-want-to-run-on-linux/62352/5 "2006-06-05T21:20:59Z")
> This makes me beleive that I have gem…But than I’m not able to do the > ‘gem list --local’ or gem -v or any other commmands. What does this > mean? Is it that gems is not installed properly? Any help is > appreciated! I’m going to guess that the path for gems is not in your environment. On my machine ruby and gems are both located in /usr/bin. Can you type “ruby -v” and get the version info, or do you need to do “/ruby/bin/ruby -v”? If you need to do the later then you’ll want to update your shells path. – DeLynn B. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > **[DeLynn Berry](https://delynnberry.com)**