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Asked: 2026-05-25T03:38:16+00:00

Although Rails and PHP have different deployment methods, what is the preferable way to

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Although Rails and PHP have different deployment methods, what is the preferable way to distribute a FOSS Rails app? Suppose one of the major PHP apps – Magento, Drupal, WordPress had been build upon RoR, what would have been the preferable way for them to have distributed their application?

Packaging up the code as a gem seems to be the wrong approach for a complete out-of-the-box application, but I could be wrong.

Coming from the world of PHP with its upload-and-go approach, and being a newcomer to Rails, it’s rather opaque at the moment to see how code could be easily and effectively distributed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Packaging a completed Rails app as a gem is probably the wrong approach. I think the best solution is to provide access to a git repository or a tarball of your git repo.

    If you want to offer your users something more than rake db:schema:load to setup your app it’s pretty easy to create custom setup commands.

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