Install to Site5

is there any way to install a RoR application to Site5 (or any other
host for that matter) that doesn’t require shell access. It would be
nice, for simplicity sake, to be able to upload an application edit a
.htaccess (or something) and have the application just run.

[ it doesn’t really matter if there is no way to do this. its just
that I’m trying to test my apps on a friends hosting before i go to
the trouble of organizing my own]