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Asked: 2026-06-04T14:55:49+00:00

I will be leaving on a 15 hour international flight next week and plan

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I will be leaving on a 15 hour international flight next week and plan on writing a rails app that I’ve been thinking about for awhile. Since it’s unlikely that their will be WiFi on my plane (I fly cheap), what is the best way to setup an offline rails development environment? I downloaded all the docs but I’m worried I’ll need a gem that I won’t be able to get and will be stuck. I’m still pretty new to RoR and would love some suggestions so that I don’t have to give up somewhere over the pacific.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I had a similar experience. First thing I ran into was needing some documentation (rails guides, API docs). Sounds like you’ve already got that part. Next issue I ran into was external JavaScript dependencies (jQuery). I was using the Google CDN but that didn’t work when I was offline. Make sure you have local copies of any files you usually get from a CDN. As far as gem dependencies, make sure you bundle install before you get on the plane. There’s no way for me to know what gems you’re going to need, but if all you need is built into rails, then doing bundle install will make sure you have all the gems you will need.

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