# Adding Gems and Plugins To A Shared Hosting Account?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-gems-and-plugins-to-a-shared-hosting-account/54939>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 15, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-gems-and-plugins-to-a-shared-hosting-account/54939 "2006-03-15T12:09:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/conz)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-gems-and-plugins-to-a-shared-hosting-account/54939/1 "2006-03-15T12:09:48Z")

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Hi, I have a hosting account with [godaddy.com](http://godaddy.com) and I guess after asking  
about RoR, it’s now installed on both the Deluxe and Premium shared  
plans. Now, it seems that I don’t have command line access (i.e ssh).  
Thus, I was wondering, how does one check to see what gems are  
installed and how can I add other gems? Is it possible to add gems  
and plugins to the local project and simply upload to the server?  
Well, I must go and thanks in advance.

-Conrad

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**Author:** ![conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/conz)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-gems-and-plugins-to-a-shared-hosting-account/54939/2 "2006-03-15T20:48:39Z")

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Hi, I have a hosting account with [godaddy.com](http://godaddy.com) and I guess after asking  
them about RoR, it’s now installed on both the Deluxe and Premium shared  
plans. Now, it seems that I don’t have command line access (i.e ssh).  
Thus, I was wondering, how does one check to see what gems are  
installed and how can I add other gems and plugins? Is it possible to  
add  
gems  
and plugins to the local project and simply upload to the server?  
Well, I must go and thanks in advance.

-Conrad

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**Author:** ![conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/conz)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-gems-and-plugins-to-a-shared-hosting-account/54939/3 "2006-03-15T20:52:06Z")

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Pretty sure you’ll need command line access to do this yourself, or  
you can (presumably) email the support guys at [godaddy.com](http://godaddy.com) to get them  
to do it for you.

Regards

Dave M.

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**Author:** ![conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@conz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/conz)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-gems-and-plugins-to-a-shared-hosting-account/54939/4 "2006-03-15T21:24:40Z")

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If the gem doesn’t compile c code, you just can locate the ruby files of  
the  
gems and put them manually in yu r lib folder and add the dependencies  
in  
enironment.rb. (the exists even a rake  
task[http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems-to-rails-lib-directory](http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems-to-rails-lib-directory)to  
freeze gems into your app exactly for this purpose, (but it did not  
work  
on windows when I last tried, see my comments there)