I am embarking on a Ruby on Rails adventure to learn more about it. I hear it has great things so I started my own rails rig in my virtual machine. I am still a .NET guy but I would be a fool not to learn more about this great language and platform.
I used sqlite3 into this install but feel free to use a different database.
Base rig:
Ruby and Rails framework installation:
- Login to Ubuntu.
- Make sure your Ubuntu is up to date:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - Install base build tools. You need this to install other packages so do not skip this:
sudo apt-get install build-essential - Install Ruby:
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev - Install RubyGems:
sudo apt-get install rubygems - Install Rake:
sudo gem install rake - Install Rails:
sudo gem install rails - Install sqllite3:
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby - Install Gherkin
sudo gem install gherkin - Install Rspec:
sudo gem install rspec-rails - Install Webrat:
sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev
sudo gem install webrat - Install Cucumber:
sudo gem install cucumber - Install Mongrel:
sudo gem install mongrel
This is it…