# Windows development and Linux hosting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-development-and-linux-hosting/109151>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 11, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-development-and-linux-hosting/109151 "2007-07-11T22:45:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-development-and-linux-hosting/109151/1 "2007-07-11T22:45:34Z")

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Hi All,

I am learning about the rails hosting in linux. My development  
environment is Windows, is there a way to convert the rails  
application from Windows to linux?

I was unable to display my test rails page because of the path problem  
and then version problem etc., I am taking baby steps and getting one  
by one resolved, but got stuck in the following error? Can someone  
help me?

[Wed Jul 11 12:53:23 2007] [error] [client 164.57.112.139] Premature  
end of script headers:  
…/dispatch.cgi  
…/config/boot.rb:29: undefined method `gem’ for main:Object  
(NoMethodError)  
from …/config/environment.rb:11  
from …/dispatch.cgi:3  
[Wed Jul 11 12:54:29 2007] [error] [client 164.57.112.139] Premature  
end of script

Based on the error, I thought it is not finding the gem so I went and  
added the linux path to ruby binary folder as the first line of code  
and is still giving me the error.

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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-development-and-linux-hosting/109151/2 "2007-07-11T23:36:45Z")

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DBC User wrote:

> I am learning about the rails hosting in linux. My development  
> environment is Windows, is there a way to convert the rails  
> application from Windows to linux?

Are you running script/server and looking at the result? That should  
be all you need - you also generally only need to restart that server  
if you change something outside the app folder.

script/server should run Webrick, which is usually too simple to  
break. Your errors appear to be CGI integration errors. Save the hard  
stuff for Linux!

–  
Phlip  
[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!

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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/windows-development-and-linux-hosting/109151/3 "2007-07-11T23:40:46Z")

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On Jul 11, 4:35 pm, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> break. Your errors appear to be CGI integration errors. Save the hard  
> stuff for Linux!
> 
> –  
> Phlip  
> [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!

I tested with script/server and it worked fine. Then I have change  
the .rb file to add linux specific ruby location and in the linux  
server it is failing.