Rails 3.0 application Windows to Linux

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Hello,

I developed a Rails 3.0 application on Windows. It connects to a couchDB database. Everything works fine. Now, I would like to take my application and put it on another machine which runs under Linux. I already migrated the database to this new machine. What is the best solution to move my application from one machine to the other one? I saw many hints to deploy an application but no precise solution... Thank you Regards

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You should just be able to copy the complete application, run bundle install and start the server. That assumes you have installed ruby and rvm on the linux machine of course.

Colin

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I use Capistrano ( GitHub - capistrano/capistrano: Remote multi-server automation tool ) to deploy from windows dev box to an ubuntu server.

works really well. best part is if the new code pushed the ubuntu blows up for what ever reason. it’s very simple to roll back to the old working version.

Cheers,

John

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Hello,

Thanks for the answer.

I always worked in windows. I developed my rails application on my windows environment.

Now, I have a Linux environment where I would like to put my application running.

To do that, Is it only necessary to pack my application directory, copy the packed file to the linux environment, unpack it and run the application as in Windows? (> rails s) I tried to do that but I had errors, so I think it is not the correct way.

I read about capistrano and I would take a look to see if it is what I am looking for.

If you have another suggestion, it will be welcome. You have mentioned the existence of tutorials. Can you suggest me a specific one?

Thank you

Best regards

Giedrius Rimkus wrote in post #1066157:

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Hello,

Thanks for the answer.

I always worked in windows. I developed my rails application on my windows environment.

Now, I have a Linux environment where I would like to put my application running.

To do that, Is it only necessary to pack my application directory, copy the packed file to the linux environment, unpack it and run the application as in Windows? (> rails s) I tried to do that but I had errors, so I think it is not the correct way.

Yes, that should work, except that you need to run bundle install before starting the server. Assuming you have everything installed and are using rvm.

I read about capistrano and I would take a look to see if it is what I am looking for.

No need if you are just using the machine for development work.

To check you have everything installed ok try making a new app on the linux machine.

Colin