title: Ruby on Rails Newbie
body: <p>I've inherited a Ruby on Rails application that has a problem. I'm half way through some books on Rails, but haven't seen the answer to some questions yet.</p>
  
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  <li><p>What is the best way to backup the application? Can I just <code>tar -cvzf app.tgz app</code>? I don't know yet if the app has a sqlite3 database or connects to a db server.</p></li>
  <li><p>What's the best way to move the application to another server for testing? Again, I don't know if it's sqlite3 or a db server backing it.</p></li>
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  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <p>Michael</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong>: Yes, I will be using version control. There isn't any right now. The question I think I was trying to get at is: how transportable is the app directory; if I want to move the entire application to another computer do I need to take anything else along with me? </p>