# Webistrano on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 17, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349 "2008-01-17T16:42:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/1 "2008-01-17T16:42:41Z")
Greetings. I just read a note on Webistrano’s website about Webistrano not running on Windows. Does anyone know if there’s a patch to get it running? I’d like to use this tool, but I’m using Windows XP for the time being and need to deploy from there. When I tried running Webistrano for the first time last night it threw an exception when trying to start the server. ---
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/2 "2008-01-17T16:55:59Z")
Here’s the callstack: C:\www\webistrano-1.2\>ruby script\server -d -p 3000 -e production =\> Booting WEBrick… You are running Ruby 1.8.6, which has a bug in its threading implementation. You are liable to encounter deadlocks running Capistrano, unless you install the fastthread library, which is available as a gem: gem install fastthread =\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) [2008-01-17 09:53:15] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2008-01-17 09:53:15] INFO ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i386-mswin32] c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:29:in `fork': the fork() function is unimplemented on this machine (NotImplementedError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:29:in `start’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start' from C:/www/webistrano-1.2/vendor/rails/railties/lib/webrick_server.rb:62:in `dispatch’ from C:/www/webistrano-1.2/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:65 from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’ from C:/www/webistrano-1.2/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' from C:/www/webistrano-1.2/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new\_constants\_in’ from C:/www/webistrano-1.2/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' from C:/www/webistrano-1.2/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:39 from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require’ from script/server:3 ---
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/3 "2008-01-17T17:58:30Z")
Hi, Cody S. schrieb: > Greetings. I just read a note on Webistrano’s website about Webistrano > not running on Windows. > > Does anyone know if there’s a patch to get it running? Not yet, the problem is that the background-deployment does not work in windows. We are working on a solution for that. > When I tried running Webistrano for the first time last night it threw > an exception when trying to start the server. The server should come up normaly like in any other Rails application. Just the background-deployment part is Unix only. Jonathan – Jonathan W. [http://blog.innerewut.de](http://blog.innerewut.de) ---
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/4 "2008-01-17T18:50:59Z")
Jonathan W. wrote: > The server should come up normaly like in any other Rails application. > Just the background-deployment part is Unix only. Have you tried it? I actually installed the fastthread gem as instructed in the above callstack, but it had no affect. If anyone else got past the callstack error on Windows, I’d like to know. I’ll try using Capistrano directly today and hope it runs on Windows. ---
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/5 "2008-01-17T18:53:59Z")
The other thing worth noting is I’m running Rails 2.0.2. ---
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/6 "2008-01-17T22:53:36Z")
Cody, “fork()” is a system-level call that is specific to Un\*x operating systems. No such thing in Windows. So the piece that you’re concerned with would have to be re-written sans-fork(). Wes ---
**Author:** ![cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cskidmore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cskidmore)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webistrano-on-windows/126349/7 "2008-01-18T23:39:03Z")
On 1/17/08, Cody S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Greetings. I just read a note on Webistrano’s website about Webistrano > not running on Windows. > > Does anyone know if there’s a patch to get it running? I’d like to use > this tool, but I’m using Windows XP for the time being and need to > deploy from there. Have you considered installing a compatible OS in a VM in your windoze? I work with Oracle on my Mac this way. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)