Gem install rails locally without Internet?

Rails
1

I’ve got a machine that cannot be connected to the Internet (think
security precautions in a bank) and am thus trying to install rails
using

gem install rails-1.1.2.gem

thinking this would work. It does not. I get errors about
ActiveSupport module missing. It makes it sound like I have to get
separate gems for ActiveSupport, ActiveRecord, etc., and install them
all one at a time, which seems strangely tedious.

So then how do I install the entire Rails system without the Internet
connection? What file(s) do I need? Thanks.

2

I have a similar problem at my work.

I downloaded edge rails onto my machine and that contains everything
that I
needed. I then copied it over to the machine that I needed to run from.

It got a little more difficult installing mongrel from local gems…
There
are quite a few.

Hope this helps

3

Thanks. So then you’re saying you did a normal gem remote install on
one machine, then simply copies of the directories to the other machine?
I suppose I could do that. This is a Linux system so I just need to
concern myself with files.

Daniel ----- wrote:

I have a similar problem at my work.

I downloaded edge rails onto my machine and that contains everything
that I
needed. I then copied it over to the machine that I needed to run from.

It got a little more difficult installing mongrel from local gems…
There
are quite a few.

Hope this helps

4

No I didn’t use gems at all… I installed Edge Rails straight from
SVN.

I have just found an unpack command for gems tho, I’m not sure how to
use it
but I have asked on the ruby-talk mailing list. I’ll report back if I
find
out how.

5

Gaudi Mi wrote:

I’ve got a machine that cannot be connected to the Internet (think
security precautions in a bank) and am thus trying to install rails
using

gem install rails-1.1.2.gem

thinking this would work. It does not. I get errors about
ActiveSupport module missing. It makes it sound like I have to get
separate gems for ActiveSupport, ActiveRecord, etc., and install them
all one at a time, which seems strangely tedious.

So then how do I install the entire Rails system without the Internet
connection? What file(s) do I need? Thanks.

What I do is just download the proper gems, move the gems to the
disconnected machine and install them in the proper order. This is
actually detailed on the wiki here:
Peak Obsession.

I have also listed the gems you’ll need below. The order I have listed
them in are the order you’ll need to install them in (yes, the order is
important).

  1. Activesupport - http://rubyforge.org/projects/activesupport/
  2. Actionpack - http://rubyforge.org/projects/actionpack/
  3. Actionmailer - http://rubyforge.org/projects/actionmailer/
  4. Activerecord - http://rubyforge.org/projects/activerecord/
  5. Actionwebservice - http://rubyforge.org/projects/aws/
  6. Rake - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rake/
  7. Rails - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails/

To install them, (taken from the wiki)

"…download the .gem files from the above links, place them in a local
directory, then issue the gem install gemname command from this
directory for each gem in order.

Of course, you will then have to continue downloading and updating each
of these gems manually if you wish to stay current."

6

Thanks, this looks like the answer I needed. I’m a little surprised
that there’s no ‘batch’ way to do this with Rake, since everything else
Ruby and Rails is always so easy, but I’m not complaining.

Gaudi

noobonrails wrote:

Gaudi Mi wrote:

I’ve got a machine that cannot be connected to the Internet (think
security precautions in a bank) and am thus trying to install rails
using

gem install rails-1.1.2.gem

thinking this would work. It does not. I get errors about
ActiveSupport module missing. It makes it sound like I have to get
separate gems for ActiveSupport, ActiveRecord, etc., and install them
all one at a time, which seems strangely tedious.

So then how do I install the entire Rails system without the Internet
connection? What file(s) do I need? Thanks.

What I do is just download the proper gems, move the gems to the
disconnected machine and install them in the proper order. This is
actually detailed on the wiki here:
Peak Obsession.

I have also listed the gems you’ll need below. The order I have listed
them in are the order you’ll need to install them in (yes, the order is
important).

  1. Activesupport - http://rubyforge.org/projects/activesupport/
  2. Actionpack - http://rubyforge.org/projects/actionpack/
  3. Actionmailer - http://rubyforge.org/projects/actionmailer/
  4. Activerecord - http://rubyforge.org/projects/activerecord/
  5. Actionwebservice - http://rubyforge.org/projects/aws/
  6. Rake - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rake/
  7. Rails - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails/

To install them, (taken from the wiki)

"…download the .gem files from the above links, place them in a local
directory, then issue the gem install gemname command from this
directory for each gem in order.

Of course, you will then have to continue downloading and updating each
of these gems manually if you wish to stay current."