Installing Ruby on Rails on Fedora 7

Note:

• I recommend installing Ruby on Rails via RubyGems
• As long as you have Ruby installed, you can install Ruby on Rails, just skip the step about installing Ruby.
• I have instructions if you are interested in Installing Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu.

Plan of Attack

This is a quick down and dirty guide to getting Ruby and Rails working in Fedora 7. You may notice this is installed into /tmp , I do this because its universal on all Fedora and Linux distributions.

• Install Ruby
• Install RubyGems via source
• Install Ruby on Rails using RubyGems
• Test Rails installation

Warning:

• Certain commands need to be executed as root. Lines requiring to be run as root, begin with a hash (#). To enter root execute su - .
• If a line begins with a dollar sign ($), those can be run as a normal user.
• If a line begins with a hash or a dollar sign, do not enter the starting hash or dollar sign into the terminal

Install Ruby

su -
yum install ruby ruby-rdoc ruby-irb

Note: If you get an error, similar to the following, just wait a while and try the above command again.

Loading “installonlyn” plugin

Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2321. Aborting.

Note: If you get something similar to the following, just enter y.

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2

Importing GPG key 0x4F2A6FD2 “Fedora Project ” from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Is this ok [y/N]:

Install RubyGems via source

Note: Latest version of RubyGems (0.9.4) as of 10th June 2007.
Enter into the Terminal:

cd /tmp
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20989/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.4
ruby setup.rb

Install Ruby on Rails using RubyGems

Enter into the Terminal:

gem install -y rails

Note: If it fails, try executing gem update and then execute the command above again.

Test Rails installation

Enter into the Terminal:

rails /tmp/railstest
cd /tmp/railstest
./script/server

Open up Firefox and go to http://localhost:3000, a page should show up indicating a successful installation. Your basically good to go with the minor exception of a database connection.

After…

Generally you’d want some sort of database connection, with the three standards choices being.

• SQLite:
  If you just want to experiment with Ruby on Rails, I’d recommend using SQLite.
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Stay tuned!