[PhillyOnRails] Installing local gems without SSH

[Farley Knight]

Sweet, thanks!

-Rob

On 3/23/07, Aaron Blohowiak <aaron at aaronblohowiak.com> wrote:
>
> Unpack your gems to vendor, then require them in environment.rb
>
> http://programmingishard.com/code/448
>
>
> Aaron Blohowiak
>
> On Mar 23, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Farley Knight wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post. I've been using Rails for a little while now.
> Here's my situation & question:
>
> I have a client that is running Rails on a shared host, of which
> Cpanel/FTP is the main access point for the home directory. I noticed that
> there is a 'local/bin' (where ruby lives), and a 'local/lib/ruby/gems'
> (where the gems live). This is in contrast to an average setup which would
> have them installed in '/usr/bin/', '/usr/lib/ruby/gems', respectively (This
> is mostly Linux stuff, BTW).
>
> So, I take it someone had to have installed them by hand into the home
> directory. Whether this was the 'last guy' or the web server admins, I don't
> know. All I know is I currently don't have access to SSH on this machine,
> but I have privileges in all these directories. My question is: is there
> some simple way to install gems by hand, or could/should I create a new
> directory which I "load" from? Or is there another option?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Rob
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