How to setup Ruby/Rails development environment, Part 1 - Ubuntu VM¶

| ruby | rails | linux |

The most popular Ruby/Rails development platform isn’t Windows. There are a lot of plug-ins, tutorials and blogs about Ruby/Rails on *nix like system. But, I’m Windows user (yes I know, Linux - rules!), so how can I use all community knowledge and easily apply it?
I’ve decided setup VMWare VM with Ubuntu Server v.9.10. And perform all Ruby/Rails development there via Putty (SSH).
I assume that You have installed Ubuntu VM.

This post is base on the next articles:

Step 1: Install Ubuntu VM - done

Step 2: Install Putty on Windows

Step 3: Configure Putty - Ubuntu VM connection
Check Ubuntu VM IP: ifconfig. Apply this VM IP in Putty setting. All next steps will be performed via Putty console

Step 4: Update Ubuntu installation

sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Step 5: Install all necessary libs

sudo apt-get install build-essential  
sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc mysql-server libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server-5.1 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 irb libopenssl-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8 libhtml-template-perl mysql-server-core-5.1 libmysqlclient16 libreadline5 psmisc

Step 6: During installation MySQL will ask to setup credentials:

user = "root"  
password = "root"

Check Ruby version

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]

Step 7: Install RubyGems

wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz  
tar xvzf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz  
cd rubygems-1.3.6  
sudo ruby setup.rb  

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

Step 8: Install Rails

sudo gem install rails

Step 9: Install SQLlite

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev  
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby

Step 10: Install MySQL client

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev  
sudo gem install mysql

Step 11: Test your Rails instalation

$ rails myrailsapp