The instructions for installing Ruby on Rails have always been lumped in with the Debian ones, and over time the page has gotten pretty messy. I’ve recently been having numerous discussions with various people about the perceived difficulties in installing Rails and its offspring on Ubuntu (and Debian). I’d been meaning to write an installation guide for Ubuntu for quite a while now to address this, but I never seemed to get around to it.
Whilst at LugRadio Live this weekend, I attended the Ruby on Rails BOF during which someone mentioned an install guide and I said I was going to be (re)writing one. This prompted me to pull my finger and actually do it, so without further ado let me introduce the new guide for installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu. I decided to create a new page instead of updating the old one not because that’s the Open Source Way but rather because the old one may still be useful to people.
I’m planning on creating a similar (probably almost identical) guide for Debian, and I need to add a couple more bits and pieces to it. I’m also planning on duplicating the content to the equivalent Ubuntu wiki page.
Tags: documentation, howto, rubyonrails, ubuntu, Writing
