# How to install Rails stand-alone?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 12, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740 "2007-01-12T10:48:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S.Kumar)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740/1 "2007-01-12T10:48:46Z")

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Hello friends,  
I am assigned the task to learn Rails. But my company firewall  
prevents the gems update through net and it is not possible. Hence I  
downloaded  
rails-1.1.6.zip. But it doesn’t have anything like setup or no document  
on how to install it. I am searching the net also, but none is giving  
about stand-alone, all are giving a round about answer as Instant rails.

So Can someone, let me know how to proceed further(install) in  
stand-alone package? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S.Kumar)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740/2 "2007-01-12T14:26:44Z")

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> all are giving a round about answer as Instant rails.

In an environment like your I would also suggest InstantRails to learn.  
It’s simply briliant and couldn’t be easier to use:  
[http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl](http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl)

…or are there any specific reason why you don’t want to use  
InstantRails?

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**Author:** ![S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S.Kumar)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740/3 "2007-01-16T12:03:16Z")

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Stefan wrote:

> > all are giving a round about answer as Instant rails.
> 
> In an environment like your I would also suggest InstantRails to learn.  
> It’s simply briliant and couldn’t be easier to use:  
> [http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl](http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl)
> 
> …or are there any specific reason why you don’t want to use  
> InstantRails?

Yes, Stefan stand-alone is 2.6MB as against InstantRails at 58MB

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**Author:** ![S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S.Kumar)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740/4 "2007-01-16T16:00:03Z")

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S.Kumar wrote:

> Stefan wrote:
> 
> > > all are giving a round about answer as Instant rails.
> > 
> > In an environment like your I would also suggest InstantRails to learn.  
> > It’s simply briliant and couldn’t be easier to use:  
> > [http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl](http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl)
> > 
> > …or are there any specific reason why you don’t want to use  
> > InstantRails?
> 
> Yes, Stefan stand-alone is 2.6MB as against InstantRails at 58MB

Yes but that includes Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Apache, PHP and some more. I  
guess a 58MB can be a hefty download if on dial-up though.

I have installed rails from the downloaded gem so I know it works but  
can’t remember the steps. I’ll see if I can look into it.

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**Author:** ![S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@S.Kumar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S.Kumar)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-rails-stand-alone/81740/5 "2007-01-16T20:36:57Z")

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S.Kumar wrote:

> Hello friends,  
> I am assigned the task to learn Rails. But my company firewall  
> prevents the gems update through net and it is not possible. Hence I  
> downloaded  
> rails-1.1.6.zip. But it doesn’t have anything like setup or no document  
> on how to install it. I am searching the net also, but none is giving  
> about stand-alone, all are giving a round about answer as Instant rails.
> 
> So Can someone, let me know how to proceed further(install) in  
> stand-alone package? Thanks in advance.

Download the Rails gem instead of the .zip. Then install like this:

$ gem install rails-1.1.6.gem --local

Rails has a number of dependencies that you’ll need to download as gems  
and install as well. activerecord, active-support, etc. You can probably  
find the listing on [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org). Just download and install the gems  
the same way. You could have them install automatically with  
–include-dependencies, but then it would try to fetch them from the net  
which wouldn’t work for you.

Of course you have to have rubygems installed, which you can get from  
[rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org)

(This is assuming you’re using \*nix. If you’re running Windows, I have  
no idea.)