Released a tool that will act as Rails::Initializer’s config.gem and extract plugins and gems to vendor/ like “rake gems:unpack”. It’s portable configuration where you can copy it and paste to another Rails application. You can paste your .rpkg file to gist/pastie/pastebin and download it and merge it with rpkg merge Just good for people who don’t want to type: sudo gem install [plugin/gem] to run Rails application. Read this post about Rails Package Management.