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Migrating your Rails programs to a new server

Editing the Environment

Ok, so now you've copied your project code over from your old server to your new server. Chances are that the version of rails that you have on the new server is different from your old server. In that case, you may need to make a few changes to your project. The first change is to edit environment.rb # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.0.2' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION Adjust the version of rails to match the version you have. Then continue down the file and find the line that says: Rails::Initializer.run do |config| Below this, add the following lines in bold (needed if you're migrating from rails 1.x to rails 2.x) Rails::Initializer.run do |config| config.action_controller.session = { :session_key => "_myapp_session", :secret => "this is a string that is at least 30 characters long" } The next step after this is to modify your code to handle rails 2.x