# How can i install ruby on rails in ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871 "2010-03-28T00:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/1 "2010-03-28T00:02:26Z")
i am new to rails so please help me to install ruby on rails to my ubuntu 9.10 Thanks ---
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/2 "2010-03-28T00:12:23Z")
You can read the instructions here: [http://rubyonrails.org/download](http://rubyonrails.org/download) 1. First, you need to install rubygems here [http://docs.rubygems.org/](http://docs.rubygems.org/) 2. Then you can install rails. The instruction also here: [http://rubyonrails.org/download](http://rubyonrails.org/download) Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/3 "2010-03-28T10:26:35Z")
On 27 March 2010 23:10, Luan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 1. Then you can install rails. The instruction also here: > [http://rubyonrails.org/download](http://rubyonrails.org/download) Those are not particularly helpful as they are not ubuntu specific. For example [http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3](http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3) suggests gem install rails when on Ubuntu it should be sudo gem install rails. Google for ubuntu install ruby rails will I am sure give lots of hits. I use this script to install it for use with apache and mysql. You would have to tweak the folder names. Also check whether I am fetching the latest version of rubygems, it may have been upgraded since I used this last. Note that there are other solutions which avoid apache and mysql but this is how I do it. Install apache and mysql first, preferably (see below). # this derived from [http://www.hackido.com/2009/04/install-ruby-rails-on-ubuntu-904-jaunty.html](http://www.hackido.com/2009/04/install-ruby-rails-on-ubuntu-904-jaunty.html) # bits for building stuff sudo apt-get install build-essential # ruby and mysql stuff, this assumes that the lamp stack with mysql has already been installed sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 irb libopenssl-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8 libhtml-template-perl wget -N -P /home/colinl/downloads [http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz) tar xvzf /home/colinl/downloads/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.5 sudo ruby setup.rb cd … rm -rf rubygems-1.3.5 echo " making symlinks - not sure if this will always be necessary, must be done if gem -v does not work" sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/local/bin/irb # rails latest version sudo gem install rails # any other versions needed #sudo gem install rails --version 2.3.2 To install the lamp stack and mysql - preferably do this before install ruby and rails # this installs the lamp stack, the ^ is important. See [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel) sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql phpmyadmin echo “**" echo “check server by [http://localhost](http://localhost), should show ‘It Works’” echo “to check php (or just go to phpmyadmin below):” echo “gksudo gedit /var/www/testing.php and put \ in it” echo “restart apache, not sure why by sudo service apache2 restart (possibly because php was installed after apache)” echo “go to [http://localhost/testing.php](http://localhost/testing.php)” echo “check phpmyadmin by [http://localhost/phpmyadmin](http://localhost/phpmyadmin)” echo “To allow access to ~/webpages edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default” echo “Change Document Root and associated directory line from /var/www to /home/colinl/websites” echo “note that doc root has no trailing /, directory does. Then restart apache” echo "**” Colin ---
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/4 "2010-03-28T12:49:56Z")
If your Ubuntu is the 9.10, then apt-get install rails otherwise [http://castilho.biz/blog/2009/11/05/ruby-on-rails-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala](http://castilho.biz/blog/2009/11/05/ruby-on-rails-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala) Best regards ---
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/5 "2010-03-28T15:20:20Z")
On 28 March 2010 11:23, Castilho [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > If your Ubuntu is the 9.10, then > apt-get install rails That should be sudo apt-get install rails of course, but I thought there were some issues installing from the ubuntu repository though I don’t remember what. Colin ---
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/6 "2010-03-28T18:33:27Z")
Current version in Ubuntu repository is 2.2.3 which lags pretty much behind official Rails repository (current stable release 2.3.5) Regarding the original question, anyway you need some kind of Rails tutorial and every one of them contains installation instructions. Rails isn’t particularly difficult to install. and I would strongly recommend RVM [http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/](http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/). Makes managing rubies and gems much easier. ---
**Author:** ![sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@sachiguns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sachiguns)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu/185871/7 "2010-03-28T12:42:20Z")
I’m sorry I only have a French link to give you. But it’s a pretty good one which saved my life last week. I’m sure you can translate it with google. [http://www.mickael-allain.fr/index.php?post/2009/05/16/Installation-d-un-environnement-de-développement-Ruby-On-Rails-sous-Ubuntu-8.10-/-9.0](http://www.mickael-allain.fr/index.php?post/2009/05/16/Installation-d-un-environnement-de-d%C3%A9veloppement-Ruby-On-Rails-sous-Ubuntu-8.10-/-9.0) 4 At least you can follow the line of codes. Good luck. Christophe Le 27 mars 2010 à 23:41, sachiguns [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) a écrit :