# Rails application without database

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-without-database/169012>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-without-database/169012 "2009-05-28T12:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![sudhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sudhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sudhi)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-without-database/169012/1 "2009-05-28T12:36:50Z")

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Hi,

I have a rails Application which only talks to REST Interfaces, I do not  
have any database. I am able run the app with no link to mysql with  
following changes  
config.frameworks -= [ :active\_record, :active\_resource, :action\_mailer  
]

in environment.rb.

With this requirement can I somehow package the entire application as a  
single exe on windows so that users can install with ease?

Or

Is it simple to deploy on Apache with this requirement?

Thanks,  
Sudhindra

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**Author:** ![sudhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sudhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sudhi)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-without-database/169012/2 "2009-05-28T13:31:38Z")

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Sudhi K. wrote:

> I have a rails Application which only talks to REST Interfaces, I do not  
> have any database. I am able run the app with no link to mysql with  
> following changes  
> config.frameworks -= [ :active\_record, :active\_resource, :action\_mailer  
> ]
> 
> in environment.rb.
> 
> With this requirement can I somehow package the entire application as a  
> single exe on windows so that users can install with ease?

I haven’t tried yet, but you should be able to. You might try  
[http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/) or apps such as Joyent  
Slingshot or Google Gears.

–  
Roderick van Domburg  
[http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com)

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**Author:** ![sudhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sudhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sudhi)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-without-database/169012/3 "2009-05-28T20:24:19Z")

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Roderick van Domburg wrote:  
[…]

> > With this requirement can I somehow package the entire application as a  
> > single exe on windows so that users can install with ease?
> 
> I haven’t tried yet, but you should be able to. You might try  
> [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/) or apps such as Joyent  
> Slingshot or Google Gears.

I haven’t done this either, but I would guess that it might also be  
worth investigating the idea of using JRuby to package the whole thing  
as a Java app. That would also mean that you could run it on any OS!

> –  
> Roderick van Domburg  
> [http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com)

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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