Hey Daniel, Glad to hear you got it working! Sounds like it wasn't so bad in the end. Ruby on Windows is always...interesting!
Thanks, Timothy. On 17 September 2014 08:15, kimda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Timothy, > > Thanks for your comment. > I followed your instruction and it looks like I have pretty much > everything installed in the old ruby/bin directory luckily. > I didn't have to run rake gems:unpack command and I just copied ruby dir, > the application directory, oracle client and set and set everything in > windows environment path and it worked with some config files changes. > > thanks, > Daniel > > On Monday, September 8, 2014 4:43:14 AM UTC-5, Timothy Mukaibo wrote: >> >> Hey Daniel, >> >> As you've discovered, you'd have a fair amount of work to do to get the >> application to the latest version of Rails. >> >> If you're fine running totally old, crappy stuff (:D), then try the >> following: >> >> 1. On the old box, use rake gems:unpack >> 2. Copy the application directory to the new server >> 3. Get Ruby 1.8.7 for Windows (it's unsupported by mainline, but >> rubyinstaller.org still seems to have a package) >> 4. See if you can get the app working with WEBRICK >> 5. If you can get it working with WEBRICK, then try Mongrel... >> >> I'm interested to see how you go! >> >> Timothy. >> >> On 8 September 2014 18:56, kimda <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have developed a small RoR app(ruby 1.8.6, rails 2.1.0, rubygem 0.9.4) >>> a few years ago and I have not worked on RoR since. >>> Now, for some reasons, I need to move this RoR app(running on 2003 >>> server currently) to new box which is windows 2008 server. >>> >>> I copied the old RoR app in my local machine(windows 7) and I downloaded >>> all the latest(using rails installer) in my local machine(windows 7) and >>> tried to run the app, but I ran into all kinds of issues. I couldn't even >>> start Mongrel server. >>> >>> I realized that running an old RoR app with latest RoR related versions >>> is nightmare. >>> I even tried RadRails IDE and set installed interpreters for Ruby, but >>> when I tried to start server, nothing happened...even nothing appears in >>> the console.(both WEBrick and Mongrel) >>> >>> My question is that what is the best/trouble-free way of moving an old >>> RoR web to the new box? >>> Is it possible to copy all RoR related installations from the old box to >>> new box and copy the app directory and run it from the new box? >>> It can't be this much trouble... >>> >>> thanks in advance >>> Daniel >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/rubyonrails-talk/980db200-b356-48fa-ad05- >>> cb3eb864ba05%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/980db200-b356-48fa-ad05-cb3eb864ba05%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/41f00294-164e-4774-907c-4d426ade81e9%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/41f00294-164e-4774-907c-4d426ade81e9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CABLJ1DJG_CiQNT_tx3%3DHVNM7ys9tyXHcBaY3dTif0BK0GhwCWg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
