Ubuntu 7.10: bootstrap a Ruby on Rails stack
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# 1) make yrself a user and stop being root # 2) main web stack + ruby sudo aptitude install -y make screen sudo aptitude install -y apache2 php5 mysql-server sudo aptitude install -y subversion postfix sudo aptitude install -y ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev rubygems irb sudo aptitude install -y imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 librmagick-ruby-doc libfreetype6-dev xml-core # 3) gemz # rubygems appears to be broken as hell. # gem update --system does squat # had to manually d/l rubygems 1.0.1, ruby setup.rb wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29548/rubygems-1.0.1.tgz tar xzvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz cd rubygems-1.0.1 sudo ruby setup.rb sudo gem install rails mongrel merb map_by_method