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Posted by Inti Tidball
Inti Tidball
3,758 Points

Moving/ Deleting Treebook directory

Hi all!

I'm new to rails.

I'm on the "generate a rails application" video. I set up treebook in a directory that is too close to the root directory and want to delete it to start over in a new directory, but am not sure if I should just move the folder "by hand" as I feel it may be messy later. I think it would be best to start again from scratch.

Am really getting my head round the concepts and haven't patched together all the ideas!

Is there a clean way of just starting again and doing it through the terminal?

Thank you!

Inti

1 Answer

Steve Monsen
Steve Monsen
5,207 Points

You can just delete the old treebook installation folder and create (or clone) a new one somewhere else. All the files and settings for any individual rails and git project are self-contained in the /[rails-app-name]/ folder, so deleting it gets rid of the project completely.

Inti Tidball
Inti Tidball
3,758 Points

Thanks Steve! I feel a lot better about moving it now. I didn't realise it was all self-contained at all! I thought as in some other environments there might be breakable links to and from the app and ruby on rails application server. Am still figuring it out in my head!