Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) for n00bs

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!