Setting Up RubyOnRails Development Environment on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
I started a new fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy).. i needed to prepare my machine for RubyOnRails development. Below are the steps i need to make: Installing Ruby, Rails, MySQL Install MySQL apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client Install Ruby (1.8.6) and gems apt-get install build-essential ruby irb rdoc ri ruby1.8-dev libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8 rubygems libmysql-ruby1.8 Update gem gem update --system rm /usr/bin/gem ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem Install Rails & Mongrels gem install rails mongrel mongrel_cluster Installing rails 1.2.5 (needed in my project) gem install rails -v 1.2.5 --include-dependencies Move the mongrel_rails, rails and rake to the /bin directory ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/mongrel_rails /bin/ ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rake /bin/ ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rails /bin/ This makes us done with the basic ruby and rails installation. Installing RMagick Rmagick is an image processing library that is needed by some rails projects (including m...