Rails installation

[jdrysdale]

OK,, I AM NO EXPERT,,, by any means but to get the ball rolling I shall attempt to do a how to install rails on your VPS. Please add comments and we'll get it right together.

So the first step that seems to work is to update your apt-get repositories.
apt-get update
then
apt-get install rubygems

Now you need to update ruby gems,,

gem update --system

This is slow... put on the kettle

them gem1.8 install rails
But I wanted 2.0.2 as that was my local host so
gem1.8 install rails -v 2.0.2

This is even slower
Go have a cup of tea or head out for a pint.

So with that rails is installed.
I'll do another post for the next stage if I get that far,,, again if you have please please post it up.

[blacknight]

Thanks for posting this.

Which distro are you using?

[jdrysdale]

Looks great doesn't it,,,, but it was doing everything I expected except rails is not there!!
SO its back to the drawing board and expect an 'Edit;'

By the way its debian,,, I've run rails on windows, ubuntu, mepis, mandriva, puppy and never usually had any brain damage,, but tis a fickle beast..

[blacknight]

Well if you need assistance just let support know - they may have already had someone in a similar situation ... I know at least one of our technical team is a bid fan of Debian

[jdrysdale]

There shouldn't be any issue with debian,, its the father of ubuntu after all. I have figured out the updating gems is required, but I reckon initially doing a manual install of the latest checkout from rubygems might be the better way. This is because after running a gem update --system from the apt-get install, gem does not work,, its gem1.8 you need to use,, a known problem.

So I'll keep plugging on and send a mail to support for any guidance, then I'll update this thread.