# Development with Rails - Published on a vServer without Rail

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-with-rails-published-on-a-vserver-without-rail/104518>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 18, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-with-rails-published-on-a-vserver-without-rail/104518 "2007-05-18T22:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Odysseus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Odysseus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Odysseus)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-with-rails-published-on-a-vserver-without-rail/104518/1 "2007-05-18T22:48:20Z")

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Hi,

I am new to Rails and like it a lot. For publishing I rented a virtual  
“Ruby” Server where I have access to Ruby modules (http://  
[Domains, Hosting und Homepage von DomainFactory](http://www.systeminformationen.de/index.php)) but they do not support Rails.  
(I have no root permission)

After I have gone trough quite some Ruby and RoR books I still do not  
know if it would be possible to develop locally with rails and publish  
on a server

- with the above mentioned Ruby modules
- but without a Rails installation. ?

Do I have to change the server or ???

Thankful for any information and help

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**Author:** ![Odysseus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Odysseus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Odysseus)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-with-rails-published-on-a-vserver-without-rail/104518/2 "2007-05-18T22:53:22Z")

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On 5/18/07, Odysseus [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> on a server
> 
> - with the above mentioned Ruby modules
> - but without a Rails installation. ?
> 
> Do I have to change the server or ???
> 
> Thankful for any information and help

Rails needs a server with rails to deploy.

–  
Rick O.  
[http://lighthouseapp.com](http://lighthouseapp.com)  
[http://weblog.techno-weenie.net](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net)  
[http://mephistoblog.com](http://mephistoblog.com)

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**Author:** ![Odysseus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Odysseus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Odysseus)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-with-rails-published-on-a-vserver-without-rail/104518/3 "2007-05-20T03:45:46Z")

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Rick O. wrote:

> > on a server
> > 
> > - with the above mentioned Ruby modules
> > - but without a Rails installation. ?
> > 
> > Do I have to change the server or ???
> > 
> > Thankful for any information and help
> 
> Rails needs a server with rails to deploy.

Couldn’t one freeze rails in the project? That would mean that rails  
gets deployed with the app.

The server would still need to have rubygems installed though… and if  
they’re not supporting  
rails, they might have an ancient version of ruby on there too.

b