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How to Setup Ruby on Rails for CentOS or Fedora

Posted: January 14th, 2012 | By: | Filed under: Tutorials | Tags: , , | No Comments »

This tutorial will guide you through setting up a basic Ruby on Rails environment, installing:

  • Ruby 1.8.7
  • RubyGems 1.8.15
  • Rails 3.1.3
  • Sqlite3
This tutorial was written for CentOS, Fedora, and other EL-based systems.
To start, log in to your VPS via SSH and update your system:
# yum update
Install Ruby:
# yum install ruby ruby-devel ruby-irb ruby-rdoc ruby-ri
Check the version installed:
# ruby -v
Install RubyGems:
# mkdir ~/sources
# cd ~/sources
# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45905/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
# tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
# cd  rubygems-1.3.1
# ruby setup.rb
Update RubyGems:
# gem update –system
Install Rails:
# gem install rails
Install Sqlite3:
# yum install sqlite-devel
# gem install sqlite3-ruby
Install Postfix and Subversion:
# yum install postfix subversion -y
You should now have an updated and functional RoR environment!
This article is also available in the VPS6.NET Knowledgebase:
https://vps6.net/my/knowledgebase/57/How-to-Setup-Ruby-on-Rails-for-CentOSorFedora-VPS.html

 

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