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Lesson 8: Setting Up Your Development Environment

Having made it this far in our series, you should have a good overview of the core concepts used in Ruby on Rails. The next step is to start building something! We’re going to lead you through that too, with our upcoming screencasts. For you to follow along, you’re going to need a development environment set up on your computer, and in this podcast we discuss the steps in doing so.

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Setting Up Your Development Environment

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From: Philipe Farias Date: 05/22/08 04:16 PM

Subject: Ubuntu instructions

Installation instructions for Ubuntu (7.10 or 8.04):

1. open terminal

2. paste this command sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems irb

3. wait the installation then paste sudo gedit /usr/bin/gem

4. after the line require 'rubygems' paste require 'rubygems/gem_runner', save and exit

5. back on terminal sudo gem update and sudo gem update --system

6. now sudo gem install rails

7. and if you want to boost gedit see this for beginning: http://github.com/mig/gedit-rails/tree/master

8. or simple sudo apt-get install vim-ruby vim-rails for vim editor

9. for mysql sudo apt-get install mysql-server (optional)

10. for postgresql sudo apt-get install postgresql-server (optional)

From: Christopher Haupt Date: 05/22/08 12:12 PM

Subject: RE: When you already have MySQL

No need to set up another instance of the DB. If you are already running successfully, just use the one you have. You can follow the rest of the instructions. The one thing you may need to tweak is if you have problems building the mysql gem (on Mac/Linux, you’ll likely use the binary version on Windows). On Mac/Linux, tweak the instructions so that the command paths are to your installation (where-ever it is) instead of the assumed “ports” version of /opt/local…”

From: Xavier Date: 05/22/08 11:11 AM

Subject: instruction when MySQL already installed using WAMP (XP) or MAMP (MAC)

I already had MySQL installed using WAMP (on XP PC) and MAMP on (OS X Leopard). Should I follow your instructions, and still install another MySQL Server, or bypass those instructions? I’m worried about either screwing up my ability to run Ruby on Rails, or PHP that was already installed.

From: Ramsesoriginal Date: 05/16/08 11:11 AM

Subject: Ubuntu - Linux in general

Hi. In ubuntu its really easy: open a termianl and type sudo apt-get install ruby rails for a basic system.

From: Zeck Date: 05/11/08 03:03 AM

Subject: Install on Ubuntu

Hi, How to install ruby on rails on ubuntu 8.04 ? Any Idea ?

From: Grzegorz Date: 05/10/08 11:23 PM

Subject: upload file

How to upload file to server in Ruby? Help me !

From: K Goarany Date: 05/06/08 07:07 AM

Subject: Ubuntu Version

Thanks Chris! In our CS lab, we’re running 7.10 “Gusty Gibbon”.

From: Christopher Haupt Date: 05/05/08 05:17 PM

Subject: RE: RoR on Ubuntu

Thanks all for the requests for a write-up regarding Ubuntu. I’ll add it to the list for a future article. What version are folks running out there?

From: K Goarany Date: 05/05/08 02:14 PM

Subject: RoR on Unbutnu

Thanks Chris & Michael for your great podcast! I for one would love if you would do a write-up for setting up RoR in Ubuntu

From: K El-Goarany Date: 05/05/08 02:14 PM

Subject: RoR on Unbutnu

Thanks Chris & Michael for you great podcast!

I for one would love if you do a write-up for setting up RoR on Ubuntu.

From: hayat Date: 05/04/08 11:11 AM

Subject: Please

What about Detailed Ruby on Rails Development Environment Installation Instructions on Ubuntu????????????

From: Christopher Haupt Date: 04/30/08 09:21 PM

Subject: RE: Linux

So far we’ve been covering the majority case of current screencast downloaders for OSs. For most Linux distros, the simplest way to get started is to use the particular package management system available on your machine (rpm. yum, apt-get, etc.), pull down the Ruby and MySQL packages, and if needed, grab RubyGems and follow the readme for its install. Once you have that, the instructions for grabbing gems is pretty similar to the Mac OS instructions. If there are particular rough spots out there, we’d love to hear about them. If enough folks write in, we might do a representative write-up for something like Ubuntu.

From: pillar Date: 04/30/08 07:19 PM

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Linux?