# Please help me for gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-for-gems/91287>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-for-gems/91287 "2007-04-06T09:07:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![prot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@prot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prot)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-for-gems/91287/1 "2007-04-06T09:07:52Z")

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can we run gems without installing i mean can we run gem from folder  
where we dump gems???

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**Author:** ![prot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@prot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prot)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-for-gems/91287/2 "2007-06-24T11:02:57Z")

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the “gem install” command can come with a -r argument, or without it.  
the default is to use it with the -r option, which is the “remote”  
option (gem install -r [http://some.url/gem/somegem\_version](http://some.url/gem/somegem_version))

use the -l (local) option.  
hope this is of some help…

shai