Installed Ruby on Rails

By 'son

Since I upgraded to Hardy Heron, I had to reinstall Ruby on Rails. I followed this howto. The code lines are:

# to make sure system is updated
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

# get ready to build some software
> sudo apt-get install build-essential

# install all the stuff you need (like MySQL, ruby, rails, etc.)
> sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc mysql-server 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 mysql-client-5.0
mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 irb libopenssl-ruby
libopenssl-ruby1.8 psmisc

# get the ruby gems
> wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/35283/rubygems-1.1.1.tgz
> tar xvzf  rubygems-1.1.1.tgz
> cd rubygems-1.1.1
> sudo ruby setup.rb

# make symbolic links
> 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

# install rails
> sudo gem install rails

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