# Run rails application without installing rails

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/run-rails-application-without-installing-rails/65540>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [October 25, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/run-rails-application-without-installing-rails/65540 "2012-10-25T05:34:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/run-rails-application-without-installing-rails/65540/1 "2012-10-25T05:34:58Z")

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Is it possible to run a rails application without installing rails gem in ubuntu system.?? If yes, please provide me some reference for it.

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**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/walterdavis/32/705_2.png) [@walterdavis](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/walterdavis)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/run-rails-application-without-installing-rails/65540/2 "2012-10-25T13:51:56Z")

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I suppose you could "vendor" the entire application, which would remove the need to install the entire stack on the server directly. I mean, it would still be installed, it just wouldn't be in the /usr/local/lib tree. Is that what you mean? There's also jRuby, where you pack the entire app into a WAR file or something like that -- nothing I've ever tried myself.

Walter