Setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu

We will be setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu.

Some of you may choose to develop on Ubuntu Server so that your development environment matches your production server.

Lets start,

Running sudo apt-get update simply makes sure your list of packages from all repositories and PPA’s is up to date.

sudo apt-get update

Install Git with Apt

One of the most popular version control systems is git, a distributed version control system.

sudo apt-get install git

Git GUI is a cross-platform and portable Tcl/Tk based GUI front-end for Git that works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

sudo apt-get install git-gui

Gitg is a GNOME GUI front-end to view Git repositories.

sudo apt-get install git-g

Bonus points

Add git branch name to bash prompt

$ gedit ~/.bashrc

#Git branch in prompt.
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $"`

Set user name and email configurations for GIT

git config --list
git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
git config --global user.email "example@gmail.com"

The next step is to install some dependencies for Ruby.

Required Packages:

sudo apt-get install gawk g++ libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 autoconf libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev automake libtool bison libffi-dev

sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickwand-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev install nodejs

Mysql / PostgreSQL gem native extensions

sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

Install rvm

the Ruby Version Manager

sudo apt-get install curl
curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Install text editor sublime-text-3

• install with apt-get

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer
  

  You could remove your installation:

    sudo apt-get remove sublime-text-installer
  

• install with .deb

  If you installed Sublime Text 3 from a .deb package which was downloaded directly from Sublime Text page: http://www.sublimetext.com/3

  And you have used this command for installation

    sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3047_amd64.deb
  

  Or you just double clicked on it and Ubuntu Software Center installed it.

Install google-chrome

Add Key:

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

Set repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'

Install package:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Install mysql-server

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Install phpmyadmin

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

sudo service apache2 status

sudo service apache2 restart

http://localhost/phpmyadmin (if apach2 running on port:80)

To run Solr server

You need a Java Runtime Environment to run the Solr server

Installing Java with apt-get is easy. First, update the package index:

sudo apt-get update

Then, check if Java is not already installed:

java -version

sudo apt-get install default-jre

Then install java

sudo apt-get install default-jdk

We have covered the basics of how to set up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu.