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After much frustration, I think I finally have a working installation recipe for RubyOnRails on Debian Linux.

1. Install Debian
2. Install ssh and sudo

apt-get install ssh sudo

3. Remove “root” login from ssh config file
4. Create a “source” directory

cd /
mkdir source

5. Install tools for compiling from various sources

apt-get install gcc gcc-3.4-doc gcc-3.4 g++-3.4 make libc6-dev flex openssl curl wget zlib1g-dev libzlib-ruby

6. Download latest Ruby (1.8.5 as of this entry), unpack and install

cd /source
wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-p2.tar.gz
tar xzvf ruby-1.8.5-p2.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.5
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

7. Download, unpack, compile and install zlib (not included in testing version of Ruby?)

wget http://www.blue.sky.or.jp/atelier/ruby/ruby-zlib-0.6.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf ruby-zlib-0.6.0.tar.gz
cd ruby-zlib-0.6.0
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
cd ..

8. Download, unpack, compile and install Ruby Gems (0.9.2 as of this entry)

cd /source/
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17190/rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.2
ruby setup.rb

9. Install Rails

gem install rails --include-dependencies

10. Install Mongrel

gem install mongrel mongrel_cluster --include-dependencies

11. Create a dummy application

cd ~/
rails test
mongrel_rails start

12. Go to http://your.ip.address:3000/ to see if it works

Sources

• The Perfect Rails/debian/lighttpd Stack…
• Mongrel: Debian HOWTO
• RubyOnRails
• Setting up a Complete Ruby Server with Mongrel and Nginx on Debian 3.1 Part 3

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