# Installing Ruby on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-on-rails/188742>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 17, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-on-rails/188742 "2010-05-17T17:23:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![raghu\_muni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@raghu\_muni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raghu_muni)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-on-rails/188742/1 "2010-05-17T17:23:36Z")

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Hi,

I’m a newbie to RoR and have been facing some problem installing RoR on  
my system.

I’m following this guide to install RoR

[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails)

and stuck up at this step

Installing Rubygems:

To make gem work properly you should write gem’s path to PATH add to  
~/.bashrc:

export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH

Can anyone help me saying where do I find the file with extension  
.bashrc,and run this step succesfully…

Is there any standard guide that can help me install RoR on my system.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![raghu\_muni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@raghu\_muni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raghu_muni)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-on-rails/188742/2 "2010-05-17T17:28:48Z")

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On 17 May 2010 16:23, Raghu M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Can anyone help me saying where do I find the file with extension  
> .bashrc,and run this step succesfully…

It’s not an “extension” that’s it’s name. The file lives in your home  
folder.

From a terminal prompt:

vi ~/.bashrc

or if you prefer gui:

gedit ~/.bashrc

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**Author:** ![raghu\_muni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@raghu\_muni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raghu_muni)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-on-rails/188742/3 "2010-05-17T19:25:22Z")

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> It’s not an “extension” that’s it’s name. The file lives in your home  
> folder.
> 
> From a terminal prompt:
> 
> vi ~/.bashrc
> 
> or if you prefer gui:
> 
> gedit ~/.bashrc

Thanks for the quick reply.  
I’ve one more question for you…

Apache + Mongrel

You have to start Mongrel Cluster (under www-data ?).

sudo mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8000 -e production -P  
/full/path/to/log/mongrel-1.pid

Where do I find the mongrel-1.pid log file in general cases…I’m sorry  
for asking such questions as it’s far beyond my knowledge atleast for  
now…

Thanks