You can also go for another sollution, ie. install ruby and all necessary gems in your home dir. I happened to do this last week and roughly documented the process on our blog (more for our reference then anything else ;) )
<br><br>Please check <a href="http://www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog/2007/11/22/installing-ruby-in-your-home-folder-on-dreamhost/">http://www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog/2007/11/22/installing-ruby-in-your-home-folder-on-dreamhost/
</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Nick.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 27, 2007 12:04 PM, Alain Ravet <<a href="mailto:alain.ravet@gmail.com">alain.ravet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mesut,<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br> > i have a dreamhost account and having issues with rails deployment.<br></div> > I [need to use] custom gems.... for instance ..soap4r<br><br>You have 2 options :<br>1/ contact DH support, and ask them to install the gem on your server
<br>2/ "vendorize" the gem (== copy it to /vendor, like for plugins)<br> see :<br> * <a href="http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/gems" target="_blank">http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/gems</a><br>
* <a href="http://errtheblog.com/post/2120" target="_blank">http://errtheblog.com/post/2120</a><br><br> Note: this will not work with gems with C code that needs to be<br>compiled, like hpricot.<br><br>As a best practice, you should always vendorize your gems when possible.
<br><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>Alain Ravet<br>--------<br><a href="http://tumblr.ravet.com" target="_blank">http://tumblr.ravet.com</a><br><a href="http://blog.ravet.com" target="_blank">http://blog.ravet.com</a><br>
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