# How to install rails in home folder(/home/username)?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-in-home-folder-home-username/120204>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 14, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-in-home-folder-home-username/120204 "2007-11-14T18:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mokkai)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-in-home-folder-home-username/120204/1 "2007-11-14T18:56:48Z")

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I don’t have root access  
Is there any idea to install ruby on rails in home  
folder(/home/username/) only ?

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**Author:** ![mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mokkai)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-in-home-folder-home-username/120204/2 "2007-11-14T21:42:20Z")

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On Nov 14, 2007 12:56 PM, Pokkai D.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I don’t have root access  
> Is there any idea to install ruby on rails in home  
> folder(/home/username/) only ?

Yes, you do it pretty much like you do with other packages: pass a  
–prefix to configure:

./configure --prefix=/home/username

Then when you install rubygems and rails, everything will be placed  
under that location (in lib, bin, and so forth).

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**Author:** ![mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mokkai)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-in-home-folder-home-username/120204/3 "2007-11-15T06:06:52Z")

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Bob S. wrote:

> Then when you install rubygems and rails, everything will be placed  
> under that location (in lib, bin, and so forth).

thank you for reply…  
i did it as you told,

but console is not starting .  
how to solve this ?

in terminal

username@server:~/Desktop/project$ ruby script/console  
Loading development environment.  
/home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in  
`require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError) from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10 from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in`require’  
from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in  
`load_modules' from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in`each’  
from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in  
`load_modules' from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in`setup’  
from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in  
`start’  
from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/bin/irb:13  
username@server:~/Desktop/project$

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**Author:** ![mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mokkai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mokkai)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-in-home-folder-home-username/120204/4 "2007-11-15T16:09:27Z")

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On Nov 15, 2007 12:06 AM, Pokkai D.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> how to solve this ?  
> `require’  
> from /home/username/Desktop/ruby/bin/irb:13  
> username@server:~/Desktop/project$

Not sure why readline didn’t get installed. Anyway, ask on the Ruby  
list; it’s a Ruby installation issue, not a Rails issue.