Archive for November, 2009

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