# Rails apps packaging

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 5, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959 "2009-01-05T12:24:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@Joshua\_Jackson](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Joshua_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959/1 "2009-01-05T12:24:00Z")

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Dear all,

How do I package a rails apps and distribute it? As I can see that rails library is installed inside the Ruby gem folder and not inside the apps. Now if I want to distribute this with my client, how can I include those gems inside the application lib/ ? Or in other case lets say I want to put the code inside git, how do I put those gems inside the distribution? I'm a bit new with rails especially in distribution of rails apps.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Rob\_Lacey1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@Rob\_Lacey1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Rob_Lacey1)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959/2 "2009-01-05T14:57:12Z")

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There are a few rake tasks for this

rake rails:freeze:edge rake rails:freeze:gems

HTH

RobL

Joshua Partogi wrote:

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Sazima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Ricardo\_Sazima](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Ricardo_Sazima)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959/3 "2009-01-05T15:28:57Z")

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You can freeze the gems to the vendor directory and they become part of your application...

Cheers, Sazima

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@Joshua\_Jackson](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Joshua_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959/4 "2009-01-05T21:19:06Z")

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Well it moved the rails gems into the vendor/ directory in my apps, but it doesn't move other gems that I use in my application.

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**Author:** ![Bob\_Martens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Bob\_Martens](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Bob_Martens)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959/5 "2009-01-05T22:09:47Z")

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Have you configured you application.rb so that the gems are included there?

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@Joshua\_Jackson](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Joshua_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-apps-packaging/37959/6 "2009-01-06T11:57:28Z")

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Okay I've got it now. Thanks heaps.

Cheers