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Aditya T
Aditya T

Reputation: 147

Installing the RoR stack in ubuntu 10

Why is setting up ruby on rails in ubuntu (for a ubuntu beginner) like getting a root canal at the dentist's office?

First of all downloading ruby, rubygems and rails itself takes forever with so many commands... Then, apparently there's already Ruby 1.8.7 in ubuntu - and when I try to install ruby 1.9.2 (for rails 3) it goes somewhere else... and rails doesn't see the new ruby...

Ugg...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 169

Answers (4)

cam
cam

Reputation: 14222

$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full rubygems1.9.1 # this is really 1.9.2 despite the confusing name
$ export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/bin:$PATH # add this to your ~/.bashrc too
$ sudo gem1.9.1 install rails
$ rails new foo_project

enjoy.

Upvotes: 0

mikewilliamson
mikewilliamson

Reputation: 24803

I agree about the root canal feeling. I wrote a script that does the setup for me. You can find it here: https://github.com/sleepycat/wrong-side-of-the-tracks

Suggestions, bug fixes and improvements welcome.

Upvotes: 0

Jake Kalstad
Jake Kalstad

Reputation: 2065

I had to (not sure if this is standard), Download rails/ruby offline and link it to my bin folder before everything was good, I also had to go remove all the old stuff ubuntu flung at me. Quite painful I wish ubuntu would just update the repositories to point to the 1.9.2.

Upvotes: 0

Gazler
Gazler

Reputation: 84180

Ryan Bigg has an excellent post about this using RVM. For setting up rails, you generally want to avoid installation via aptitude.

http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you

Upvotes: 3

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