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Next up on the list is installing Ruby on our Ubuntu instance.

First thing we need to do is to run an update on Ubuntu to make sure we have all our tools up to date.

sudo apt-get update

Then install aptitude and do an update on it. Aptitude is a new package management system for ubuntu.

sudo apt-get aptitude
sudo aptitude update

After that we’re going to need to install Git and curl which we can do by running

sudo aptitude install build-essential git-core curl

We need Git and curl because we’re going to be using them in order to bring down the RVM (Ruby Version Manager), which will be what we’re using to install Ruby.

To install the RVM you need to run this command

bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

And then you will need to edit a file to have Ubuntu point scripts in the right place with these two commands

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"'
>> ~/.bashrc 

Then you will need to close your terminal and open up a new one

The next thing we’ll need to do is to install a handful of other packages that we’ll need for ruby to work (all in one line on the terminal!)

sudo aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev
curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0
libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf

And at this point we’re ready to actually install Ruby

rvm install 1.9.2

After its installed we can tell RVM to use this version as the default ruby implementation from now on by saying

rvm --default use 1.9.2

And you can verify that by executing

ruby -v

Next thing to do is install Rails

gem install rails

At this point you now have rails running on your box.

It’s very easy to get a sample rails server up and running. Go to your terminal and run the following

rails new myapp
cd myapp
bundle install

And once all the gems get installed for your app you can start your server up by

rails server

You’ll need to right click on the url link and open it up in your browser to see.

1. 

   Uncle Scott

   May 17, 2011 at 10:17 pm

   You know I switched our PC’s to ubuntu. I got tired of the virus issues. Been troublefree since then! Between ubuntu and Mac’s, my support had gone way down.
2. 

   Joseph

   May 19, 2011 at 8:49 am

   Hey Cobb. I’m definitely enjoying the experience so far. But I do have to mention, in order to do the screencast from this article, I actually ran into an issue where Firefox would crash constantly in Ubuntu when doing the screecast. I ended up having to install Chrome and running it from there to get it to work!