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).
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I'm trying to initialize a new rails app on windows, and running rails new <appname> generates everything up to vendor/assets/stylesheets/.keep, but when bundle install is run, rails generates this error:
Checksum of /versions does not match the checksum provided by server! Something is wrong.
I'm not sure what's causing this, as I've done nothing to rails itself. Any help is appreciated.
Edit: If it's an error caused by windows being finicky, I have the option of moving to Linux, but I'd like to know what's wrong first.
I had the same issue using windows, and was able to solve it by uninstalling bundler and installing an older version.
rails new <appname>
gem uninstall bundler
gem install bundler -v 1.9
cd <appname>
bundle install
That did it for me!
In my case there was a *.pre.1 version and I chose to uninstall that particular version and then "bundle install" worked.
Try removing your ruby cache folder and then try again. So for example if you are on Linux machine and you are using rbenv and say ruby 2.1.5 folder. Your path would be similar to something like (Not sure where on windows ruby is stored):
~/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/cache/
Removing this folder and trying bundle install again should resolve the issue.
It will be great, if you move to a Linux machine.
On windows it's a hell to pay in my 5 years of experience what i have learned is not to mess with (ror) or (rs) in windows. here's a cheeky thing you can do an easy way. I believe you are using github as repo, as a editor you are using sublime if thats is a case open your gemfile you will see check the image or
try to clear cache on your server or update the gems.
I had this same exact error and solved it the following way. I think you are missing the ruby DevKit being installed.
Go here http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ and download/install the latest 32-bit Ruby version (as of writing this 2.2.4, you will need it for the web-console gem)
Make sure to add your ruby\bin folder to your environmental path variable
The trick is hidden near the bottom-left of the same page under the "Development Kit" section. You need to download and extract the right one into a permanent location (as of writing this for 32-bit - DevKit-mingw64-32-4.7.2-20130224-1151-sfx.exe)
After extracting the files, go into the main directory and run "ruby dk.rb init" followed by "ruby dk.rb install" (More information can be found here
That fixed it for me and i can now fully install with no checksum issues
This problem began when i tried to run my app. I wrote rails s and the console said me Could not find sdoc-0.4.1 in any of the sources Run bundle install to install missing gems. Then i wrote bundle install and the message that appeared was Checksum of /versions does not match the checksum provided by server! Something is wrong.
I solve this problem following this steps:
Wrote bundle install
The console said me Could not find sdoc-0.4.1 in any of the sources
Then i reinstalled this gem with gem install sdoc -v 0.4.1
I tried again to write rails s and it's was solved.
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I'm using Ruby 2.1 and Rails 4.1 on Windows 7. Whenever I run bundle install, all gems are installed in the system path c:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/. I also found the vendor directory in my project.
Coming from PHP composer and node.js npm background, all dependencies should be locally installed in the project vendor folder or node_modules folder. So, my questions are:
Should I install gems in the system path or vendor/bundle?
If all gems or some gems should be installed in the system path, how could it affect the production environment where I may not have shell access?
Should all gems or specific gems be installed in vendor/bundle?
How can I install gems in vendor/bundle?
When you run bundle install, you are using a tool called Bundler.
Bundler takes care of managing your dependencies in a similar way as Composer, but instead of installing everything in the project folder, it installs your gems system-wide, that are shared among all your projects. It keeps track of what project requires which libraries by using the Gemfile in your project folder. So, you should just let Bundler do its thing, it does it very well and is the standard package manager for Rails.
If your host supports Ruby and Rails applications (for example, a PaaS like Heroku), it definitely will support Bundler and all the necessary gems will be installed. If you're talking about a cheap shared hosting without shell access, you won't be able to deploy a Ruby application there anyway because you will need to install the actual Ruby interpreter and other things, which would require shell access.
No.
You shouldn't. There's this article describing how to do it, but it seems to me that
countless times where installing gems globally leaked into other projects on the same machine and led to weird behavior that was annoying to debug
has only ever happened to the author of this article, and I don't think Bundler is at fault. In any case, you should always prepend gem commands with bundle exec (as in bundle exec rspec) and you will never have the mentioned problem. bundle exec makes sure that when you execute a command from a gem, the correct version defined in your Gemfile is called, it is important if you have several version of the same gem installed in your system.
A few years ago when RVM was popular, gemsets achieved a similar goal but got mostly deprecated by rbenv and Bundler.
I am new to rails and am learning about bundler. I understand that bundle install installs all the gems specified in the gemfile but where does it install them to?
Does it install them on my computer permanently so that they can be used by any future project?
If so doesnt this mean my computer gets filled with random gem versions and gem installs that I needed for one example project but may never use again?
By default, bundle install is going to install at the root level so all users on a computer could have access to the gems. So 'yes' it is permanent (at least not tied to your application, you can remove them whenever you want).
Take a look at the man pages for bundler. In here, you'll notice that you can specify to install to a local directory.
Install your dependencies, even gems that are already installed to your system gems, to a location other than your system's gem
repository. In this case, install them to vendor/bundle.
$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle
Further bundle commands or calls to Bundler.setup or Bundler.require
will remember this location.
This will let you install the gems to a location inside your application. So when you delete the example app, you also delete the associated gems.
Also, if you would like to see where a specific gem is installed (say you want to look at its source code), type bundle show <gemname>. This will spit out the path to that gem.
The short answer is 'yes'. The longer answer is that there are some technologies which will reduce or eliminate the problems associated with this effect.
If you install 'RVM':
https://rvm.io/
this will allow you to install multiple versions of Ruby and create individual 'gemsets'. As you enter the directory that contains your project, the ruby version and gemset settings are automatically picked up and the active Ruby version will change. This way you can keep gems separate between projects - and use several Ruby versions at once, including JRuby and other esoteric versions.
To find out where gems are stored, type:
gem environment
into your command line and look for the INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY entry in the response.
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.
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!).