I recently re-installed Ubuntu from scratch on a machine at home. The previous installation had been loaded with tons of cruft because of my haphazard installation of just about everything I could possibly try. One of those haphazard installations was Ruby on Rails.
And as a haphazard installation implies, I had issues. Sadface.
But as with any fresh OS installation, things are running really well. So naturally, I wanted to make sure I do it the right way when I go to install Rails this time.
I, being the noob that I am, turned to Google in search for a great how-to guide/tutorial. Well it didn’t take long to find at all. The very first result did the trick:
Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Hackido! I just followed the steps and voila… things are looking good. Granted, I stopped after completing Step 6 since I was really just looking to setup a local development environment. So I can’t necessarily speak to Steps 7+, but if I get good enough with Rails, this is where I will be turning to when I go to setup a live Rails app on a web server like Rackspace’s Cloud Sites or Slicehost.
Enjoy!
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