Installing Rails on Ubuntu Edgy

rubyonrails-talk
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I've found various online instructions for installing Rails on Ubuntu but none of them are perfect. First things first, I already have Ruby 1.8.4 installed. The executable was named ruby1.8 so I alias'd it to ruby so gem would work. I installed rubygems-0.9.2 successfully and all the other libraries like rdoc, irb, etc.

Here is what I get when I try and install Rails:

gdboling@gdboling-laptop:~/Desktop/rubygems-0.9.2$ gem install rails -- include-dependencies Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)     Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository

Any help is appreciated.

Gregg

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Found the solution:

http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/DeleteYourCache.red

Gregg

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Found the solution:

http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/DeleteYourCache.red

Debian's broken support for Ruby is a FAQ on this newsgroup. Here's one Ubuntoid answer:

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Actually, installing the Rails "stack" (incl. MySql, Apache, Mongrel, Subversion) on Ubuntu is a no-brainer, thanks to deprec.

There's a free screencast that shows the whole process in one go:   http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov

, and it's documented elsewhere :   http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=automated_rails_install_and_deployment_with_deprec_capistrano

Alain

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Please post here about any further battles. I once installed Rails on a Kubuntu, got it working, tried to install it on another Kubuntu (from the same distro CD!), and never got it working. Finally I threw in CentOS, which is a stealth RedHat.