Get Ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential
Note that ruby-full will install emacs and a slew of other non-essential packages. You can install all the necessary packages with this command:
sudo aptitude install ruby build-essential libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev
Server Installation
If you want to have RubyOnRails running on apache make sure you have installed these first.
sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-prefork-dev
Install the MySQL database and it’s connector
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev
sudo gem install mysql
Installing RubyGems
You can get the latest version of rubygems from here http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
RubyGems via apt
sudo apt-get install rubygems
To make gem work properly you should write gem’s path to PATH add to ~/.bashrc:
export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH
To export path once just enter previous code to bash.
RubyGems 1.3.5 Ubuntu 9.04
sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8
sudo gem install rubygems-update
Check All are installed:
ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
gem -v
1.3.5
rails -v
Rails 2.3.4
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
After give the above command give this in your browser http://localhost it shows the apache home page or It works!
