ruby and rails installation on ubuntu

Installation of ruby and rails in ubuntu

to install ruby and rails in ubuntu 10.10 follow the procedure for the installation of ruby & rails

to install ruby

#apt-get install ruby-full

after this the ruby will be installed

then after this for download the ruby gems

#wget production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz

after this the rubygems will be downloaded as a .tar file then extract the the downloaded file

#tar-xvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz

after this move to th rubygem directory

#cd rubygems-1.3.7/

after this install the rubygems

#ruby setup.rb

here the ruby gem will be installed

create link file the gems

#ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

then insall gem like this

#gem install rdoc

for the installation of rails 2.3.8 version of rails

#gem install –version=2.3.8 rails --include-dependencies

after this the ruby and rails will be installed

after this install the below package for the installation of mysql gem

#apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev

#gem install mysql

here the gem for mysql will be installed