Getting on Rails Quickly for Debian-based systems
Monday 3rd November 2008 at 12:47 pmJust to speed things up for anybody who needs it, here are the commands we use to get Rails sites working on a fresh Debian-based system.
Next, go to http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 and download the latest rubygems package (grab the .tar.gz file).
Extract it, and run
When that finishes, you should be able to type
And get a version number (like 1.3.1 at present). If this doesn’t work, it may be the case that it installed as command “gem1.8″ (rather than “gem”). So we can fix this pretty easily:
[code]sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem[/code]
Lastly you can install all the commonly used gems we use here:
[code]gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install mongrel ruby-debug mysql mislav-will_paginate ferret
acts_as_ferret rmagick fastercsv rails capistrano rake[/code]
On the apt installs I got an error installing libmagick9-dev, which meant you can’t install rmagick. Found that if you install libmagick*-dev and libmagickwand-dev then you can get rmagick to install.