# Downloading Rails w/o Gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-rails-w-o-gems/109948>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-rails-w-o-gems/109948 "2007-07-20T16:17:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Water_Cooler_v2)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-rails-w-o-gems/109948/1 "2007-07-20T16:17:23Z")

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There was a great post on one of the ruby/RoR related newsgroups,  
perhaps this one itself, probably by Dave T. and Andy H., or by  
someone else, about installing rails as separate gems, without the  
gems package manager. The post detailed the purpose and sequence of  
each gems file to be downloaded (activelist, activerecord etc.) and  
the steps to perform after their download.

I am looking for that article because my office firewall seems to  
prevent the gems package manager from running and downloading rails. I  
get the following error.

C:\>gem install rails --remote  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
Bad file descriptor - connect(2)(Errno::EBADF)

Can someone please point me to the said (or other relevant) article  
that will solve my problem?

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**Author:** ![Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Water_Cooler_v2)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-rails-w-o-gems/109948/2 "2007-07-20T16:35:26Z")

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you can bypass the gem package management system and install rails via  
svn if you want.

Read here for more info: [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/)

Adam

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**Author:** ![Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Water_Cooler_v2)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-rails-w-o-gems/109948/3 "2007-07-20T16:44:26Z")

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Thanks very much. I’d also like instructions to place the files in the  
proper folders.

Water Cooler v2

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**Author:** ![Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@Water\_Cooler\_v2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Water_Cooler_v2)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/downloading-rails-w-o-gems/109948/4 "2007-07-20T17:06:31Z")

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Water Cooler v2 wrote:

> Thanks very much. I’d also like instructions to place the files in the  
> proper folders.

I think the easiest way is to generate gems from the subversion  
checkout. In each subfolder (activerecord, actionpack, etc) you can run  
‘rake gem’. This will put a .gem file in the pkg directory. Which you  
can then install with the gem command.

–  
Cheers,

- Jacob A.