Question

I am currently in an internship in which I am learning Ruby on Rails (mostly version 3.x).

I am responsible for a project which has been made way back using Rails 1.2.3 so this contains no such thing as a "Gemfile" so can someone show me the way I can include gems in my project?

Answer 1

I started Rails with the version 2.1 but probably it is the same thing. So with rails 2 you put your gem in config/environnement.rb like this (for example):

config.gem 'mislav-will_paginate', :version => '2.3.6', :lib => 'will_paginate', 
:source => 'http://gems.github.com'

Next you run rake gems:install

Otherwise, other method, you have to just run in your shell gem install yourgem

I hope it is the same behaviour with Rails 1.2.3 but you will probably have issue with the version of the gems which will be incompatible with Rails 1.2.3