Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Tutorial Title: Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Course: Web Engineering

Instructor: Muhammad Samim

Note: Copy and paste commands in terminal after dollar sign ($)


1. Selecting best server for updating OS

• Search "Software & Update" and Open
  
  
• .Click on mentioned drop down button and click on others
  
  
• Find Japan in list and click on small mentioned icon
  
  
• Click on "ubuntutym.u-toyama.ac.jp"
  
  
• Click on "Choose Server"
  
• Type your computer password and Click on "Authenticate"
  
  
• Search "Software Updater" and open it.
  
  
 

• Click on "Install Now"
  

• You OS will be updated

2. Installing dependencies for Ruby Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• Search "Terminal" and open or press Ctrl + Alt + t
• $ sudo apt-get update
• $ sudo apt-get upgrade
• $ sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev
• $ sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev

3. Installing rbenv Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ cd
• $ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
• $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
• $ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
• $ exec $SHELL

4. Building Ruby Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
• $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
• $ exec $SHELL 

5. Installing Ruby Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ rbenv install 2.3.1
• $ rbenv global 2.3.1
• $ ruby -v

 6. Installing Bundler Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc
• $ gem install bundler

7.  Configuring Git, Bitbucket/Github and Heroku

7.  Installing Rails Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
• $ gem install rails -v 4.2.6
• $ rbenv rehash
• $ rails -v

8. Confirming successful installation of Ruby and Rails Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• for ruby type $ ruby -v
• for rails type $ rails -v
  

9. Installing and configuring PostgesSQL Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-common
• $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.5 libpq-dev
• $ apt-get -y install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev

10. Creating user name with your current user name of computer Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ sudo -u postgres createuser yourname -s

11. Creating password for created user Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $

• $ sudo -u postgres psql
• # \password
• # yourpassword

12. Installing MySQL (Its Choice to use it or postgreSQL, Not recommended) Note: Type or copy and paste commands after $$

• $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

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