Installing notes for Rails on Debian/Ubunto
November 6th, 2008 | by guda |Debian Etch with backports
Add this line in sources.list to get rails > 1.8.5 in rails etch
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
# deb ftp://ftp.nz.debian.org/backports etch-backports main contrib non-free
apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
aptitude update
# some ruby stuff
aptitude install -t etch-backports ruby1.8-dev libmysqlclient15off libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-common mysql-client libmysql-ruby1.8
# some system utils/libs
aptitude install apt-utils build-essential mysql-server mysql-common mysql-client memcached libxslt1-dev libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev unzip gzip mytop openssl
aptitude install -t etch-backports libopenssl-ruby
# gems
gem install rails mongrel mongrel_cluster -y
check this step-by-step
Image magick linux howto - http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install2-linux.html
aptitude install libmagick9-dev librmagick-ruby1.8 imagemagick librmagick-ruby-doc
# for version 1 of imagemagick we use this rmagick, else try it without the -v
gem install rmagick -v 1.15.12
# lets test it
> irb
require 'rubygems'
require 'RMagick'
Magick::CenterGravity
puts Magick::Long_version
One Response to “Installing notes for Rails on Debian/Ubunto”
By Penyu on Dec 16, 2008 | Reply
Under windows you need to add in PATH variable the path where imagemagick is installed. For example: c:\program files\imagemagick-6.3.7-q8