# Sharing a Ruby gem I've written to streamline Convox installations
**URL:** https://community.convox.com/t/sharing-a-ruby-gem-ive-written-to-streamline-convox-installations/525
**Category:** CLI
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/sharing-a-ruby-gem-ive-written-to-streamline-convox-installations/525 "2019-05-09T13:16:14Z")
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### Author:  [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/sharing-a-ruby-gem-ive-written-to-streamline-convox-installations/525/1 "2019-05-09T13:16:14Z")
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a Ruby gem I’ve been working on, which makes it easier to build a convox installation workflow.
The gem is called [convox\_installer](https://github.com/FormAPI/convox_installer), and you can include it in a single Ruby file with `bundler/inline`. So you can have an `install.rb` script that starts like this:
```ruby
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'bundler/inline'
gemfile do
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'convox_installer'
end
require "convox_installer"
include ConvoxInstaller
# Your installation script here
```
Including the `ConvoxInstaller` module gives you some Ruby methods you can call to perform various operations. These methods are all [documented in the README](https://github.com/FormAPI/convox_installer#convoxinstaller-dsl).
Here’s a [full example of a Convox install script](https://github.com/FormAPI/convox_installer/blob/master/examples/full_installation.rb), which includes some custom config prompts, CORS settings for an S3 bucket, setting ENV vars, data setup and seeding, health check upgrade flow, and a final summary that you can customize for your users.
Please check it out, and I hope someone finds this useful!
Many thanks to the Convox devs for the awesome `convox/rack` and CLI tool. This is a really awesome and easy way to get open source projects or on-premise deployments set up on your own AWS infrastructure.
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### Author:  [@edfricker](https://community.convox.com/u/edfricker)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/sharing-a-ruby-gem-ive-written-to-streamline-convox-installations/525/2 "2019-08-07T19:14:40Z")
Really nice idea! 😁