Comments on: HowTo: Install Ruby, RubyonRails, and RubyGems on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy)

By: John

John — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:57:10 +0000

I found this tutorial to work much better for me on Ubuntu.
http://fo64.com/articles/2005/10/20/rails-on-breezy
Takes approx 15 minutes to install but walks you through installing mysql apache2, ruby rails, etc.
Worked perfect for me.

By: Exohuman

Exohuman — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:29:46 +0000

I tried what Tracy said and it worked. Much easier. Just make sure you have ruby installed (and irb and rdoc for completion sake) and then you can run "sudo gem install rails" However, even after that I still had to run "sudo apt-get install libdbi-ruby1.8"

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:19:29 +0000

This install does not make sense. I personally would’nt install Ruby and Ruby on Rails using this method. The Ubuntu Ruby and Rails packages are not the recomended packages for install.
Why install Ruby Gems and not use it to install Ruby on Rails using: sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies?
I know every one loves the APT packaging system but RubyGems are the preffered distrubution method for Ruby applications and libraries.
concept10

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:53:21 +0000

Bert, I had the exact same problem on Debian Sarge. I’m still a bit of a nubie when it come to Linux, but I’m lovin’ it. Bye bye Bill 8)

Anyway…
I didn’t use the apt-get in step 1 of this guide as I wanted 1.8.4 (not 1.8.2), which may have caused most of the problem.

I seems I had two installations of ruby on my machine after I did:
./configure
make
sudo make install
…of the ruby 1.8.4.

After much investigation i found that ./configure defaultly sets up to install under /usr/local (for ruby to /usr/local/lib/ruby). I found this out after spotting that I already had a copy installed to /usr/lib/ruby. I also noticed that the gems area in the new /usr/local/… had the appropriate dirs in it, but no files in them.

I tried simply renaming the /usr/local/lib/ruby dir and makeing a soft link to the /usr/lib/ruby dir. This didn’t fix the problem so I tried rerunning ./config on the ruby 1.8.4 with the “–prefix=/usr” argument. I then tried step 2.

I don’t remember whether that worked straight off or not. But I did have a problem with the zlib.so file.

I checked out /usr/lib/ruby/1.8. It now had both of these dirs:
i386-linux
i686-linux
…to be honest i don’t know what the contents of these directories are for, but I did know that the zlib.so file needed to be in them, I had already run:
sudo apt-get install libzlib-ruby
so it was in the i368-linux dir, i copied it to the I686-linux directory, and everything was good. :)

I hope I haven’t missed out soemthing really important, i didn’t make notes on everything i did as i hadn’t realised it was going to be such a mission to sort out. I hadn’t planned on posting a solution either, but as I couldn’t find anything in the way an answer it thought i ought to.

So there you go, I hope this helps someone. Dunno why it had to be sooo hard.
8)

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:23:25 +0000

Instructions failed for me at step 2.ii

sudo ruby setup.rb

Seeing as how I am just getting started I don’t know how to troubleshoot this error. Any help greatly appreciated.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__’: no such file to load — zlib (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:9
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:1
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:61:in `manage_gems’
from /home/admin/rubygems-0.8.11/./post-install.rb:64:in `install_sources’
from /home/admin/rubygems-0.8.11/./post-install.rb:75:in `try_run_hook’
from setup.rb:577:in `run_hook’
from setup.rb:1315:in `exec_task_traverse’
from setup.rb:1168:in `exec_install’
from setup.rb:887:in `exec_install’
from setup.rb:705:in `invoke’
from setup.rb:674:in `invoke’
from setup.rb:1352

By: Ağva

Ağva — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:35:33 +0000

great site you have made

By: miguelsan

miguelsan — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:37:21 +0000

For some reason rails is not working properly with 1.8.3. You´d better try with 1.8.2 or 1.8.4

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:24:57 +0000

1.8.3 - Has everyone been using this version of ruby and making out ok? It looks like I have to go to debian to get the properly working packages.

By: Raru

Raru — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:53:42 +0000

Good Article
Check this site for more detail instruction to setup mysql, phpmyadmin and other more including ruby on rails

http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2006/02/05/ubuntu-5-10-web-server-howto

By: UnderpaidLoveMonki

UnderpaidLoveMonki — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:06:59 +0000

coo coo! Thanks dooodz