http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
Download ruby package
$ tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.1-p376.tar.gz
$ cd ruby-1.9.1-p376/
$ . /configure
$ make
$ make install
download rubygems
$ tar -xvzf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.3.6/
$ ruby setup.rb
$ gem install rails
Creating first project
$ rails firstpro
Above step will create project with following dir structure
drwxr-xr-x 6 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 app
drwxr-xr-x 5 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 db
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 doc
drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 log
drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:46 nbproject
drwxr-xr-x 5 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 public
-rw-r--r-- 1 gt gt 307 2010-05-08 15:42 Rakefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 gt gt 10011 2010-05-08 15:42 README
drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 script
drwxr-xr-x 7 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 test
drwxr-xr-x 6 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 vendor
ROR works in MVC architecture put your files inside apps accordingly
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 controllers
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 helpers
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 models
drwxr-xr-x 3 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 views
use the script inside the script folder to perform rails operations
rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 159 2010-05-08 15:42 about
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 104 2010-05-08 15:42 console
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 106 2010-05-08 15:42 dbconsole
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 104 2010-05-08 15:42 destroy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 105 2010-05-08 15:42 generate
drwxr-xr-x 2 gt gt 4096 2010-05-08 15:42 performance
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 103 2010-05-08 15:42 plugin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 103 2010-05-08 15:42 runner
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gt gt 103 2010-05-08 15:42 server
To Run server
$ script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2010-05-08 15:43:20] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2010-05-08 15:43:20] INFO ruby 1.9.1 (2009-12-07) [i686-linux]
[2010-05-08 15:43:25] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=31445 port=3000
Check in your browser for the link below (Output)
http://localhost:3000
if you get ROR page then your ROR is working successfully else check the steps above
Give a try :)
In my next post we can see how to create simple ROR application
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