# Locally Update InstantRails-2.0-win to support rails 2.2.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 20, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locally-update-instantrails-2-0-win-to-support-rails-2-2-2/156093 "2008-12-20T13:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the_guru)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locally-update-instantrails-2-0-win-to-support-rails-2-2-2/156093/1 "2008-12-20T13:10:30Z")
Locally Update InstantRails-2.0-win to support rails 2.2.2. Before everything I want point something that all the blogs and forums shows how to install rails from remote server. But this is boring for people on the slow side of the internet. Rails is a gem (meaning this is a package) so we can install rails locally from the gem. But we need all the gems to install it locally. For ur convenience u can download the rails-2.2.2. zip from [http://rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). Inside the zip u will find {vendor/rails/_/pkg} directory here u will get all the gems u need.(_ means railties,activesupport,activerecord etc.) Step 1. Setting the environment variable in win XP Set a path of /ruby/bin {installed driver}/{ InstantRails-2.0-win¡¨ } /ruby/bin Step 2. Installing ruby gem 1.3.1 Extract ¡§rubygems-1.3.1.zip ¡§ Go to the extracted directory from command line Run : ruby install.rb This will install the ruby gem 1.3.1 Check the version with run : gem -v To be sured u can run command: gem update ¡Vsystem Step 3. Installing rake 0.8.3 To install rails-2.2.2 u will need rake 0.8.3 I couldn¡¦t find the gem of rake 0.8.3 I installed it from internet Run : gem install rake ¡Vinclude-dependencies This update rake ƒº Step 4. Installing rails 2.2.2 Put all the gems in the {your path}/ruby/bin/ directory All most done ƒº Run command : gem install rails ¡Vinclude-dependencies ¡Vl The last ¡Vl parameter forces the gems to be installed from local directory The command will auto install actionmailer,activerecord ¡K… Check the version with run : rails ¡Vv Step 5. Seeing what is installed U can see all the gem that are installed in ur system . Run : gem list Warring!!! do not run : gem cleanup This cleanup is not necessary Problems you may face: I face a mysql a problem of : missing libmySQL.dll error This was very annoying. Goto {your path}/mysql/bin/ libmySQL.dll paste it to {your path}/ruby/bin/ I guess this will solve the problem. This is my first real problem solve post . hope u liked it . ---
**Author:** ![the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the_guru)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locally-update-instantrails-2-0-win-to-support-rails-2-2-2/156093/2 "2008-12-20T22:33:21Z")
the\_guru wrote: > Locally Update InstantRails-2.0-win to support rails 2.2.2. > Before everything I want point something that all the blogs and forums > shows how to install rails from remote server. But this is > > boring for people on the slow side of the internet. Rails is a gem > (meaning this is a package) so we can install rails locally from > > the gem. But we need all the gems to install it locally. > > … > > Problems you may face: > I face a mysql a problem of : missing libmySQL.dll error > This was very annoying. Goto > {your path}/mysql/bin/ > libmySQL.dll > paste it to > {your path}/ruby/bin/ > I guess this will solve the problem. > > This is my first real problem solve post . hope u liked it . Hey! Guru! I found the same things. Now it’s all working well. Wondered if I did it right. Excellent problem solve. Nice going. Ken ---
**Author:** ![the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the_guru)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locally-update-instantrails-2-0-win-to-support-rails-2-2-2/156093/3 "2008-12-26T22:43:47Z")
thanks for the encouragement !!! 🙂 It means lot to a newbie … like me ---
**Author:** ![the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@the\_guru](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the_guru)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locally-update-instantrails-2-0-win-to-support-rails-2-2-2/156093/4 "2008-12-20T23:39:06Z")
Nice going, Guru. I’ll pass on a reference of this to people needing help. Best wishes, Richard