# Ruby Application installation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-application-installation/190744>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 26, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-application-installation/190744 "2010-06-26T11:18:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackbug)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-application-installation/190744/1 "2010-06-26T11:18:51Z")

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I have the following directory structure of the ruby application

how am i supposed to install it and to make it work?

bin doc etc LICENSE scripts src test

Can anyone help me on this?

thanks

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**Author:** ![blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackbug)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-application-installation/190744/2 "2010-06-26T13:21:11Z")

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What platform are you installing on?

What Ruby application are you talking about? Or are you talking about  
Ruby itself?

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**Author:** ![blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackbug)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 10:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-application-installation/190744/3 "2010-06-27T10:03:11Z")

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i am talking about an application created on rails.  
I am using ruby 1.8 with ubuntu

i am new to this and want to install the application (deploy).

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**Author:** ![blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@blackbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blackbug)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-application-installation/190744/4 "2010-06-27T15:56:08Z")

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There are many ways to deploy Rails applications. There is some  
information on the Rails website: [http://rubyonrails.org/deploy](http://rubyonrails.org/deploy)