Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I'm going to try making a small project in Ruby on Rails, so first I need to install the development environment on my laptop. More for my own future reference than anyone else's benefit, here's what I did:
sudo aptitude update (because it's just a good idea)
sudo aptitude install ruby-full build-essential (This installs emacs. wtf?!? Oh well...)
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz (Find the latest RubyGems package from rubyforge.org)
tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
sudo ruby setup.rb (It appears to hang for a while with no output but eventually works and returns you to a prompt. So far so good...)
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
sudo gem update --system (Should say nothing to update if you've pulled down the latest version)
sudo gem install rails (Install rails)
All done and nothing remaining but to check that MySQL is up and running and start developing actual code.
posted at: 18:19 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
