Installing rails on Ubuntu 10.04 Server was painful. Lessons I learnt were, don’t use the system ruby, don’t use the system gem, don’t try and use the system ruby with a downloaded copy of gem…<\/p>\n
I ended up using rvm (Ruby Version Manager) for the install, you also need to install nodejs from an external repository…<\/p>\n
sudo su # become root<\/p>\n
apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion
\nsudo apt-get install python-software-properties <\/p>\n
add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea\/node.js
\napt-get update
\napt-get install nodejs<\/p>\n
bash < <(curl -s https:\/\/raw.github.com\/wayneeseguin\/rvm\/master\/binscripts\/rvm-installer )\n\n\/usr\/local\/rvm\/bin\/rvm install 1.9.2\n\/usr\/local\/rvm\/bin\/rvm use 1.9.2\n\n\/usr\/local\/rvm\/bin\/gem install rails\n\/usr\/local\/rvm\/bin\/gem install execjs\n\nexit # become a normal user again.\n\ncd ~ # your project directory, could change user here.\nrails new simpleweb # create a new rails project\n\ncd simpleweb\n\nrake db:create # create application databases (sqlite)\n\nrails server # start the rails server!\n[\/sourcecode]\n\nPoint a web browser at http:\/\/localhost:3000 and you should see the example Ruby site.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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