Installing Ruby on Rails Locally on Ubuntu

So, after about two weeks of thinking on how to get Ruby on Rails running locally on my desktop so I can learn the language I gave in. Obviously with a lot of help from Freenode an Open Source Network full of projects for Linux, Windows, and everything else.

Anyway, to get started I will show you how to get ROR installed locally.

I started off installing ruby1.8, rails. mysql-server. lighttpd. libfcgi-ruby1.8
I also turned off lighttpd in services on the menu, because it wasn’t needed to be ran constantly.

I also installed phpmyadmin which is a GUI that gets started up in a browser, with phpmyadmin – you can create users, render schemes, delete, stuff, change privileges, and whole lot more. But I had to install mysql-admin which does basically everything phpmyadmin, but it does it locally on your desktop.

I actually followed the LAMP installation guide for a fair bit to create a new user, and database.

After getting mysql-admin running locally with localhost, or 127.0.0.1 I set up a new user with limited permissions on database1.

I can also note that, “script/server” will getlighttpd server running my app.

Thanks to Snuxoll for the help.

This is a crap posting, but I wanted to create a posting that will benefit me for later use. so not only will I be able to come back to it later, but I won’t have to remember all of what I did.

Look forward for a new posting, this one doesn’t count. =P
–Justin