It may seem stupid to consider ruby on rails without an internet connection and gem seems to require one, but it is common to run web services for test using only the loopback address. I have two linux installs with ruby 1.8 in them. I sneaker-netted the tarballs for rails and rubygems and want to install rails without having to go to the internet. Can it be done? It seems a mystery that I can get rails src and not create rails without depending on gem to go out to the ROR web site. This dependency violates the idea of open source, IMHO. Please tell me, though, if I have a workaround. Is there some option to gem to look at the rails source dir or the tarball as a package and then to make rails from that, all local to my laptop without going to the internet? I just got the tarballs this week, so they should be the latest. Bruce --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Frederick Cheung
2008-Apr-23 20:54 UTC
Re: Newbe Install Question, rails install w/o internet.
On 23 Apr 2008, at 21:40, Bruce wrote:> > It may seem stupid to consider ruby on rails without an internet > connection and gem seems to require one, but it is common to run web > services for test using only the loopback address. I have > two linux installs with ruby 1.8 in them. I sneaker-netted the > tarballs for rails and rubygems and want to install rails without > having to go to the internet. Can it be done?You could have just downloaded the gems themselves. The rake tasks that are part of rails can also make the gems from the source.> > > It seems a mystery that I can get rails src and not create rails > without depending on gem to go out to the ROR web site. This > dependency violates the idea of open source, IMHO. Please tell me, > though, if I have a workaround. Is there some option to gem to look at > the rails source dir or the tarball as a package and then to make > rails from that, all local to my laptop without going to the internet? > I just got the tarballs this week, so they should be the latest. >That probably means you''ve got edge rails, which isn''t ideal if you''re just starting. Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Thanks, Fred I will look for different distros that I can use directly in stand alone. Bruce On Apr 23, 12:54 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> On 23 Apr 2008, at 21:40, Bruce wrote: > > > > > It may seem stupid to consider ruby on rails without an internet > > connection and gem seems to require one, but it is common to run web > > services for test using only the loopback address. I have > > two linux installs with ruby 1.8 in them. I sneaker-netted the > > tarballs for rails and rubygems and want to install rails without > > having to go to the internet. Can it be done? > > You could have just downloaded the gems themselves. The rake tasks > that are part of rails can also make the gems from the source. > > > It seems a mystery that I can get rails src and not create rails > > without depending on gem to go out to the ROR web site. This > > dependency violates the idea of open source, IMHO. Please tell me, > > though, if I have a workaround. Is there some option to gem to look at > > the rails source dir or the tarball as a package and then to make > > rails from that, all local to my laptop without going to the internet? > > I just got the tarballs this week, so they should be the latest. > > That probably means you''ve got edge rails, which isn''t ideal if you''re > just starting. > > Fred--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---