CentOS 5.3 RoR Install
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My Linux of choice is CentOS, owing mostly to its stability and very mature support base. Even with that, it’s actually pretty hard to find a good guide for installing a Ruby on Rails stack on CentOS 5.3. Here are the commands I run on a clean VPS or server (works for i386 and x86-64):
yum -y install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server yum install -y ruby ruby-ri ruby-rdoc ruby-libs ruby-devel yum -y install zlib zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel chkconfig mysqld on service mysqld start mysql yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools' yum update -y wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/57643/rubygems-1.3.4.tgz tar zxvf rubygems-1.3.4.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.4 ruby setup.rb gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
I hope this saves someone just a bit of time, let me know if you have any trouble.
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4:07 pm on June 25th, 2009
A few notes:
* You should reboot after the ‘yum update -y’.
* The ‘mysql’ command is to set up users and passwords, info here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/adding-users.html
12:07 am on July 17th, 2009
Nice. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
12:54 am on July 17th, 2009
Stay tuned for a guide on setting everything up on CentOS 5.3 with Apache or Mongrel included!
3:43 pm on August 7th, 2009
Looking forward to the ‘guide on setting everything up’, as I have previously been developing RoR on Ubuntu, but CentOS seems to be much more secure for a production environment.
4:12 pm on August 7th, 2009
Oh my, I almost forgot. Will get those instructions up today! Stay tuned!