# Too many files in instant rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-files-in-instant-rails/125814>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 12, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-files-in-instant-rails/125814 "2008-01-12T10:38:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![gadys](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@gadys](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gadys)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-files-in-instant-rails/125814/1 "2008-01-12T10:38:18Z")

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Hi  
I’ve put instant rails on my Disk on key and because of the amount of  
files it takes 1.5 giga of space.  
I’m guessing i probably don’t need all those files. which one can i  
delete to lower the files count ? (help, source …)

Thanks

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**Author:** ![gadys](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@gadys](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gadys)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-files-in-instant-rails/125814/2 "2008-01-13T12:38:16Z")

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my entire ruby directory is 330M, with 2 rails versions and several  
gems I probably don’t need. mysql is another 250M, ad apache2 about  
80M. I did not use instant rails though.

You can try installing ruby, rails, and mysql (or sqlite3)  
separately.

On Jan 12, 1:38 am, Gady S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)