HowTo : Install Ruby on Rails (ROR)

[HostV Joseph]

1. Install Ruby

cd /usr/src
wget ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.6/
./configure

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Edit defines.h if you need. (Normally, this step won't be needed.)

Remove comment mark(#) before the module names from ext/Setup (or
add module names if not present), if you want to link modules
statically.

If you don't want to compile non static extension modules
(probably on architectures which does not allow dynamic loading),
remove comment mark from the line "#option nodynamic" in
ext/Setup. ---)
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make
make test
make install

2. Install rubygems

cd /usr/src
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.ph...gems-1.0.1.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.0.1
ruby setup.rb

3. Install Rails

gem install rails --include-dependencies
rails /usr/local/rails

4. Htaccess and Apache config


Open /usr/local/rails/public/.htaccess
Add

RewriteBase /rails

just above the RewriteRules

Open httpd.conf and add the following Alias:

Alias /rails /usr/local/rails/public

Restart http
Access using http://ipaddress/rails/
Please substitute ipaddress by server's ip.

If everything went correctly, you will see the ruby o rails Getting Started page..