• Registered: 2012-01-12
  • Posts: 1

Topic: Ruby on ubuntu

Hey guys I just converted my OS from windows to Ubuntu and i cant get Ruby or RoR to run has anybody else come across this if so please can i get some help

Happy Coding

Jamesgonrails

  • Registered: 2011-09-04
  • Posts: 136

Re: Ruby on ubuntu

The easiest way to get Ruby and Ruby on Rails running under Linux is to use this tool

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/joshfng/railsready/raw/master/railsready.sh && bash railsready.sh

You get to choose to use RVM or build from source as your ruby install.

If you choose RVM make sure you know how to use it! http://beginrescueend.com/rvm/basics/

Also to get MySQL running on it before you install Ruby do these commands

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysql-ruby libmysql-dev

That will install MySQL for you and the dev package for use with Ruby

or if you want to use PostreSQL do these commands

sudo apt-get install libpq5 libpq-dev

then after you install ruby do

sudo gem install pg

and that will set up PostreSQL

Let me know how it goes!

  • Registered: 2012-09-26
  • Posts: 25

Re: Ruby on ubuntu

Keep in mind, Rails 3 works best with Ruby 1.9.2. Ruby 1.9.2 fixes up quite a few bugs in 1.9.1 and is preferable to running 1.9.1.

With RVM installing 1.9.2 is a breeze.

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