# Running Rails/Ruby from a compressed archive?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-ruby-from-a-compressed-archive/111003>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-ruby-from-a-compressed-archive/111003 "2007-08-01T21:07:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![JGoewert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JGoewert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/JGoewert)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-rails-ruby-from-a-compressed-archive/111003/1 "2007-08-01T21:07:14Z")

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Is there any way to run Ruby apps using an archive of the ruby files  
being run? Sort of like a Jar in Java? For my server, I don’t mind all  
the uncompressed files, but when I am doing remote development, the  
thousands of text files in ruby\lib eat up way too much drivespace.

I tried searching, but I guess I am having problems articulating what  
I am looking for. Is there any mechanisms to do this in Ruby?