I have a RoR application running on box1...it obviously has Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails installed on that box, along with a few other gems.
I want to copy this whole set-up so it runs independentally on box2 as well.
Neither box has an internet connection, but an internet connection is available on another machine.
So as far as I can see, I need to-
Install Ruby on box2 (I have an RPM, no problem)
Install RubyGems on box2 (I have an RPM, no problem)
Install Rails (How do i do this?)
Copy over entire Rails app directory onto box2?
The only guidance on the Ruby on Rails site is to run gem install rails but I cannot do this without an internet connection.
So can I just run bundle package on box1, then copy over the resulting gem files onto box2 and do a local gem install on each one to install them?
Or can I simply copy 'usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems' directory onto box2?
Secondly, I plan on packing my Rails app into an RPM so I can easily deploy it wherever I want...can I just include my gem files (resulting from bundle package) in the RPM directory structure, and then direct the RPM in the .spec file to do a gem install during installation? That way it'll install the required gems as the RPM is being installed.
It's possible I'm overlooking a much simpler method, or misunderstanding something, if so, please enlighten me. Any help?
Take a look at Vagrant and the Railscasts episode.
Vagrant will solve your "deploy anywhere" problem by putting everything in a virtual machine that has all your gems installed.
Of course, this won't solve your immediate problem due to lack of internet access but it does sound like you're on the right track.
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I have a Windows 2012 server that is on an internal network. I used Railsinstaller to put the basic framework on the system. Rails new doesn't work when I reach the bundler section since I can't reach the net.
I have used "gem install rails -i repo --no-rdoc --no-ri" on a net accessible system then placed the gems on my server and ran "gem install --force --local *.gem".
Then "rails new D:\DTS_WEB --edge" and now fail at "unable to connect to github.com". Trying to start the rails server fails telling me that nothing has been checked out.
I modified my gems file with
"gem 'rails', path: '....\Ruby2.2.0\lib\ruby\gems\'" but it still tries github.
I installed git with Railsinstaller along with rails. How can I get past this last obstacle and force everything to use local resources?
Is it possible to build everything on the net accessible node and just copy it into place on the server to use? My first attempt at that failed.
On a machine that has a network connection, you can install your app's gems to a directory within the project using --path:
$ bundle install --path=vendor/bundle
Then, you can copy the project folder (along with all the gems in vendor/bundle) to your internal machine.
I really appreciate if one can provide some insight for installing ruby on rails 3.x framework to a computer without internet connection.
All the tutorials or explanations seem to assume that there is always an internet connection. Is there simple way to download a bundle with all the dependencies included and simply install the bundle.
Thanks in advance
Finally. The complete list of Gems that you need to download manually, in order to install Rails in Offline mode (or behind a proxy that prevents your "gem" commands from working).
This list assumes that you already have the following things (Windows 7):
Ruby 1.9.2
RubyGems 1.8.24
DevKit
THE LIST.
Go to rubygems.org and use the Search function to download each one of the following Gems. You don't need to type the complete name with version numbers and stuff. For example, just "actionmailer" will work and will find the latest version).
Each gem page shows you the command line you have to type when installing it normally in a computer that isn't behind a proxy. Ignore it and just click the download link.
actionmailer-3.2.6.gem
actionpack-3.2.6.gem
activerecord-3.2.6.gem
activeresource-3.2.6.gem
activesupport-3.2.6.gem
rake-0.9.2.2.gem
i18n-0.6.0.gem
multi_json-1.3.6.gem
activemodel-3.2.6.gem
arel-3.0.2.gem
tzinfo-0.3.33.gem
builder-3.0.0.gem
erubis-2.7.0.gem
journey-1.0.4.gem
rack-1.4.1.gem
rack-cache-1.2.gem
rack-test-0.6.1.gem
sprockets-2.1.3.gem
hike-1.2.1.gem
tilt-1.3.3.gem
mail-2.4.4.gem
mime-types-1.19.gem
treetop-1.4.10.gem
polyglot-0.3.3.gem
rails-3.2.6.gem
bundler-1.1.4.gem
railties-3.2.6.gem
rack-ssl-1.3.2.gem
rdoc-3.12.gem
thor-0.15.3.gem
JSON-1.7.3.gem
(31 files total)
Just keep in mind that the versions may change. I did this in June 2012 and those were the versions that worked for me.
Copy all those files to the Ruby installation dir.
Then, open a CMD console.
cd \
cd <RubyInstallDir>
gem install rails-3.2.6.gem
Installation should run normally.
It is possible that some dependencies need a different version.
In that case, the error message will show you the right version. So you just need to download the version from rubygems.org (there is a list of old versions in the gem's page) and run the gem install command again.
I hope this can help.
You can use bundler to achive that. Bundler accepts the path where you can specify the location for the gems to be installed. Run the following command where you have internet connection. It will download all the dependencies and pack them into the specified folder.
bundle install --path gems # 'gems' is the folder present in Rails.root
Now that all the dependencies are within the project, you can copy the project to the machine where you don't have internet connection. From now on use the commands like:
bundle exec rails server
bundle exec rails console
Note that you have to install the bundler gem manually in the target machine.
I know that this question refers to Rails 3, but I created PortableRails exactly because of this (which has recently been updated to support Rails 4). Just make sure that you run bundle --local instead of just bundle (which is what the new-action tries to perform).
I'm trying to deploy a rails app under apache (on Ubuntu 11.04) for the first time and I'm running into some issues. Basically, when I hit the site, I get an error:
no such file to load --bundler
I'm running rails 3.0 under apache and using passenger. Currently, the app lives under a subdirectory of a user directory. I've installed rvm and have pointed apache at the directory. I did a bundle install to install all the gems.
However, I think I may have screwed up by putting the site in a user directory. Should I move it somewhere under /var/www? I'm thinking that it is entirely reasonable that apache is not getting the same gemset that I have installed for the user. What do I need to do to get the user that apache is running under to have the same rvm capabilities?
I'm a bit clueless on what information you guys need to help me, so please clue me in.
Did you install the necessary gems for Rails? Install bundler by executing gem install bundler. Then go into your Rails app and type bundle install.
Also, after bundler is installed, type which bundle to see if it's in your $PATH.
I really need help with Rubygems (that's the package manager for ruby). Since I'm behind a proxy, I've given up all hope of it working automatically, so I had to download a lot of packages manually and install them for rails to install. Now, I'm getting an error message:
Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.2 (...)
Once again, I manually downloaded rubygems-1.3.2.gem and installed it, however, it still doesn't work and gem -v shows 1.3.1. Help. Also, I can assure it that unless gem has HTTP1.1 Auth Proxy support, there is no way it by itself will be able to contact its server...
Before running rubygems commands, you should try something like (for windows)
set http_proxy=user:password#ip:port
Or export for linux, I guess.
It seems that one can simply download the source tarballs, untar them and use setup.rb to install the update. More information on it here.
I did this and was very pleased with the result (no problem!).
I'm used to the One-Click install local environments of MAMP. Is there a Ruby equivalent... a download that you run and instantly get the most current versions of Ruby, Rails, SQLite running locally?
I'm using a Mac, running Leopard, and am aware that all of the aforementioned technologies ship with Leopard (except maybe SQLite). The books that I have reference newer versions and the last thing I need is to try to retrofit a tutorial to work with my version.
And one more less important question: What are "Gems" and is that something that I need to make sure is fully updated too?
Installation is pretty confusing when you first start with Rails! Even though a lot of what you need is already installed if you are using Mac, personally I found it really hard to find come concise information on how to best go about setting things up.
Since I didn't want anyone else to go through the headaches that I had when configuring their Mac development environment, I've written a 7 step guide to installing Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Apache with PHP, and phpMyAdmin on OSX Leopard. In short, everything you should need to get developing locally on your Mac!
Here's the link:
http://waavoo.com/2009/7-step-guide-installing-ruby-on-rails-mysql-apache-php-phpmyadmin-intel-mac-os-x-leopard/
Hope that helps!
Take a look at FiveRuns Install. It's a free Ruby on Rails stack that you can download.
RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries. Check out the User Guide.
Have fun!
I have no idea what mac os are you in but Leopard (10.5.x) already have ruby installed, all you need is to updated the gems using
gem update rails
in your command line.
if you're on Tiger (10.4.x) the installation is broken, and please follow this link.
You should also have a look at Phusion Passenger - this, along with the prefpane, allows you to have apache VirtualHosts set up the easy way.
Current versions of Rails are designed to work (for development) without needing an AMP -style stack, by using SQLite and a small Ruby Web server, so if you will only be doing Rails development you don't need to set up a stack - you can just type "rails" and it will work.
BUT the versions of RubyGems and Rails shipped with Leopard are now outdated, though, so you'll need to upgrade these before you go too far. There's an article that I wrote on setting up a Mac for development here, but the minimum commands go like this:
sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo update_rubygems
sudo update_rubygems (yep, twice)
sudo gem update --system
These get RubyGems up to the current release, so that you can upgrade Rails safely. To do that, type:
gem update rails
The last command doesn't have sudo, because if you omit it, current versions of RubyGems will install a clean copy of the gems into your home directory, leaving the system versions untouched.
Finally, amend the .profile file in your home directory, so that the line with PATH in it says:
export PATH=$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:$PATH
Close up any terminal windows for this to take effect. The utilities provided by the gem packages in your home directory will now have precedence over the system versions.
This means that you can type "rails" and the latest version will run, but you haven't messed with any of the software provided by Apple (apart from the system copy of RubyGems).
To upgrade your private copy of Rails whenever a new version comes along in future it's just this again:
gem update rails
just refer this....
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation/windows#installing_ruby_on_rails_on_windows
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