VMware

17th September
2012
written by simplelight

Instructions for setting up an Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine for Ruby on Rails development

  1. Turn on virtualization technology in BIOS of host machine. (This is necessary to use a 64-bit Ubuntu distribution)
  2. Download Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit ISO
  3. Create new virtual machine in VMware Player
  4. Install Rails using RailsReady script on Github
  5. Add SSH key to Github
  6. Setup Sublime Text 2
    1. Install Package Control
      1. Install SCSS highlighting
  7. Done.
6th November
2009
written by simplelight

After downloading the latest Ubuntu desktop appliance from VMware, the following steps are required to get a Rails environment up and running:

Create a new user and add all the required access

Get Ubuntu up to date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install compile packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Install Ruby, MySQL and the Open SSL library

sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev

Install Sun Java

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Get the latest ruby gems from RubyForge

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/57643/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
tar xvzf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
sudo ruby setup.rb

Remove the .tgz file and erase the rubygems-1.3.5 directory too.

Create the following symbolic links

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/local/bin/irb

Install Rails

sudo gem install rails

Add Github for legacy gems

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

Switch to Gemcutter for primary gem repository

sudo gem install gemcutter
gem tumble
4th August
2008
written by simplelight

If you’re using and Ubuntu virtual machine with VMware Player and are having a problem with the toolbar covering the Ubuntu toolbar then this should fix the problem:

  1. Open “C:\Documents and Settings\<your account>\Application Data\VMware\preferences.ini”
  2. Add this line to the bottom of the file:    pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = “TRUE”

The “Application Data” folder in C:\Documents and Settings\<your account>\ is typically a hidden folder so you’ll need to view the hidden files to find it.