I'm trying to install rails without necessarily having a network connection. It's a lengthy story but suffice it to say my work environment has very high walls.
I have ruby installed. I have gem installed. I can't install rails.
I downloaded the rails-1.1.6.gem file but when I run gem install rails -l -y I get: rails requires activesupport = 1.3.1 um.. it's in the package..
Am I better off just grabbing the .zip version of the rails package and installing it where?
This my not be what you’re looking for, but, I usually use InstantRails. I download one file. Unzip it into a directory, and its ready to use. You can get it from RubyForge http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails
-Cheers -Larry
I've done this. basically I constructed the ruby folder on a machine with the internet - installed all the required gems etc. which included rails with all dependencies. Then I stripped out anything I didn't want (size was an issue, it might not be in your case) and zipped up that whole folder. put it on a CD, (or USB drive, ruby is self contained so it can be portable). Now I can put it on a machine with no network just by unzipping the contents of the CD. The ruby I used was just the standard windows all in one installer.
Tom Allison wrote:
Hello Tom,
I'm trying to install rails without necessarily having a network connection. It's a lengthy story but suffice it to say my work environment has very high walls.
I have ruby installed. I have gem installed. I can't install rails.
I downloaded the rails-1.1.6.gem file but when I run gem install rails -l -y I get: rails requires activesupport = 1.3.1 um.. it's in the package..
Which package ?
Am I better off just grabbing the .zip version of the rails package and installing it where?
What do you mean by 'package' ?
You have downloaded rails-1.1.6.gem file, but have you downloaded activesupport-1.3.1.gem, activerecord-1.14.4.gem actionpack-1.12.5.gem, actionmailer-1.2.5.gem and actionwebservice-1.1.6.gem files ?
(make sure you have rake 0.7.1 gem already installed)
-- Jean-François.