# Where is my "rails" folder?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-my-rails-folder/122246>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 5, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-my-rails-folder/122246 "2007-12-05T21:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-my-rails-folder/122246/1 "2007-12-05T21:52:59Z")

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Hi,

I’m working through the tutorial for the site and am on step five  
([Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/TutorialStepFive)). At the  
beginning it says, “Go to your rails folder”. But no where in the  
tutorial do I remember creating one, and I can’t find a rails folder  
within my project. Where is this supposed to be?

I’m using the latest version of Ruby on Rails on Fedora Core Linux.

Thanks, - Dave

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-my-rails-folder/122246/2 "2007-12-05T22:13:33Z")

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> I’m working through the tutorial for the site and am on step five  
> ([Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/TutorialStepFive)). At the  
> beginning it says, “Go to your rails folder”. But no where in the  
> tutorial do I remember creating one, and I can’t find a rails folder  
> within my project. Where is this supposed to be?
> 
> I’m using the latest version of Ruby on Rails on Fedora Core Linux.

They mean the folder you created when you typed “rake MyProject”. So  
the  
“MyProject” folder.

It’s also commonly referred to as RAILS\_ROOT as well…

-philip

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-my-rails-folder/122246/3 "2007-12-05T23:34:27Z")

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He means the top level folder of your application. The folder created  
when you ran “rails myproject” not “rake myproject” 😉

-Bill