<p>I have a Rails app that I need to deploy. Here are the facts:</p>

<ul>
<li>The app was developed on Windows and requires Windows binary gems</li>
<li>The app is to be deployed onto an Open Solaris shared server (Joyent)</li>
<li>I do not have permissions to install gems on the server</li>
<li>For the non-binary gems, I can simply do a <code>rake gems:unpack</code> locally and then upload; this works just fine.</li>
</ul>

<p>So my question is, how do I get the <strong>binary</strong> gems I need onto my production server?</p>

The binary gems are the real problem. For all other gems you can use the
```
vendor/gems
```
directory (only possible with Rails 2.1+).