This article shows how easily you can install RoR offline(locally). I have installed ruby and gems by using RubyInstaller and through this article we'll see what packages we need.

1.What we need?

1. If you dont have installed ruby and gem get the RubyInstaller. (or read other articles to find out how to install these manually) 
2. go to http://rubyforge.org/ and download these packages:

• Rails at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=307
• Rake at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=50
• Active Resource at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3507
• Active Support at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=570
• Active Record at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=182
• Action Mailer at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=361
• Action Pack at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=249

2.install gems

Open command prompt and navigate to the folder which contains these downloaded gems. and use following command to install gems.

gem install

It is important to install the rails package after you have installed allother packages. You can use the sequence which is shown bellow. (the F: drive contains all my gem packagees)

Now everything is ok to run the rails command and create your first application.You can read more at here.

Tags: RubyOnRails