Revision as of 03:07, 26 January 2010

Installation

Debian

Installation from tarball sources

1. Install Ruby

 apt-get install ruby-full build-essential
 

1. Install Gems

 wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
 tar zxvf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
 cd rubygems-1.3.5
 ruby setup.rb
 ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
 

1. Install Rails

 gem install rails
 

Installation from Debian repositories

1. Install Ruby and Development tools

 apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems build-essential
 

1. Install Ruby extras

 apt-get install libzlib-ruby rdoc irb ri
 

1. Install Rails

#!wiki green/solid
 apt-get install rails
 

Other packages:

• If MySQL support is needed, then the proper package to be installed is `libmysql-ruby`
• If Oniguruma is needed, ensure `libonig-dev` package is present on system

#!wiki note
 '''Binary gems directory is not added automatically on `$PATH`'''

 In order to run gem binaries available on `bin` folder, the location `/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin` must be added as described in `/usr/share/docs/rubygems1.8/README.Debian`.
 

Fedora

Its very easy, `rubygem-rails` must provide all the needed packages and dependencies

 yum install rubygem-rails