How to install rail from source

rubyonrails-talk
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I am trying to play with Ruby and rails first time. All instructions to install rails seems to be 'gem install rails' kind of. Problem with this method is that it will need an internet connection on the machine where rails needs to be installed and that is not available in my case. The rails download page (http://rubyonrails.org/download) talks about downloading standalone packages but can't find any instructions about how to use them.

Any clues?

Thanks, Vinod http://blog.vinodsingh.com/

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You don't need an internet connection to install gems. Just go download the gems, copy them over to your machine, and do 'gem install rails' in the same directory where you have stored your gems (that's off the top of my head, but you definitely can install gems you have in a local folder).

Best,

Felix