Is there a way to rename the application in Rails 2?
A:
Rename the directory of the project to the new name, then in .project file in that directory change the name in the projectDescription/name tag:
<projectDescription>
<name>new_name</name>
The only place where the old name still exists is in config\initializers\session_store.rb in the session key, you can rename that too, if you want.
True Soft
2010-07-17 06:10:33
.project file? I've never heard of such a thing, and I just created a dummy rails project to test and can't find that file. Can you elaborate on that?
Faisal
2010-07-17 06:54:25
This probably only exists for a particular IDE.
Ryan Bigg
2010-07-17 06:59:14
If there isn't such a file, then just rename the directory. It must be from eclipse.
True Soft
2010-07-17 07:28:31
+1
A:
just rename the application directory, nothing more. I did it several times, no issues.
apeacox
2010-07-17 09:23:41
A:
Rails 2 doesn't really have a concept of an application 'name'. The only thing that identifies your app is the name of the folder itself.
In Rails 3, it's a little different. Rails 3 projects are name-spaced to a module defined in config/application.rb. This application module is used to house your app, and you'll see it referenced by your config.ru, config/routes.rb, config/environment.rb and all the environments defined in config/environments/.
If you were to open a terminal session and run the command rails new myapp, your config/application.rb file would define the module Myapp, inside which will be defined an Application class, which extends Rails::Application. All the other files will reference Myapp::Application.
In both Rails 2 and 3, you will find a string key for your session defined in config/initializers/session_store.rb, which takes the default value of '_<myapp>_session'. It's not really tied to the "name" of your application, though you should try to keep it in sync to prevent any accidental session key name conflicts with other apps.
Chris
2010-07-17 09:41:39