Özgün Koyun Özgün Koyun

Installing Ruby on Rails (Ubuntu)

25 Sep 2008   rails

Updating your repository.

$ sudo apt-get update

Installing Ruby, MySQL, sqlite and build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysql-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libsqlite-ruby

Installing gem package

$ sudo apt-get install gem

Installing Ruby on Rails

$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

Installing a few useful Ruby gems:

$ sudo gem install mongrel
$ sudo gem install capistrano 
$ sudo gem install ruby-debug
$ sudo gem install image_science
$ sudo gem install rmagick
$ sudo gem install RedCloth

Now you may create your first rails app:

$ rails myapp

If you want to use mysql instead of sqlite in your app:

$ rails myapp -d mysql

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