[Project] Introducing PortableRails3 Makes Rails3 work on Windows without much installation hassle

An article, posted about 14 years ago filed in ruby, rails, software, tools, portablerails, installation, github, project & tech.

The InstantRails project is outdated and contains just too much IMHO ( Apache, PHP, who needs that when searching for Rails?). Other options to get Rails running require an installer (RailsInstaller or RubyInstaller )... and in some environments ( limited access accounts ) installing is not an option. And in yet other environments, you'd, well I'd, rather have a command line option, instead of an in-your-face installer that requires end-users to press 'next', 'next', 'next'...

So that's why I created Portable Rails 3. It's name was 'inspired' (it's a boring name, I know) by the thoughtfully named Portable Git which makes an excelent companion.

Installing is as simple as extracting (or cloning) and running start-cmd.bat

Credits

I didn't do much besides just throwing the binary stuff together. Stuff that went into the mix (I'll update when I feel its necessary):

  • Ruby 1.9.2
  • PDCurses [1]
  • GDBM  [1]
  • OpenSSL [1]
  • readline [1]
  • Zlib  [1]
  • IconV [1]
  • RubyGems 1.7.2 (updated with update --system )
  • Rails 3.0.6 (preinstalled as gem)
  • SQLite3 (preinstalled sqlite3-gem + sqlite3.dll as instructed by the SQLite3-gem-installation)

[1] Downloaded from (basically as instructed): http://jarp.does.notwork.org/win32/

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