Question : Moving Ruyby on Rails website from one server to another server

Hey Guys,

I am working on migrating a Ruby on Rials website from a Linux server to Windows server. I installed Instant Rials on the Windows server.

I also think there is a quick setup command which I can run to make the website work.

can anyone help?

Thanks

Answer : Moving Ruyby on Rails website from one server to another server

Just curious, but why are you running InstantRails 1.3?  There's a security hole in 1.3 that needs to be fixed. I'd suggest upgrading to at least 1.4:
http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?How_To_Upgrade

Download versions:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=904

I'd suggest version 1.7 or 2.0.


If you still have access to the linux machine, you can see what version of rails it was running:
rails -v

Then, you can set the application to use that version with:
rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=REL_0_0_0 (with the version you want instead of zeros).
It will download all of the rails files into vendor/rails.  When you start your application, it checks to see if that directory exists and uses it if so (instead of the rails gem version)

If you don't have access to the linux machine, look in config/environment.rb
There should a line like:

RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.0.2' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION

That's the version you want to freeze to, most likely.

Try the freezing, then if you're still getting the error, you may need update the gem system software. Before, gem calls used "require_gem" and now they use "gem".  So, update rubygems:
gem update --system