Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu or Mint

Question

I have installed Rails on my Windows 7 partition, but it is so slow, so I decided to try to install it on Linux.

I have tried Ubuntu 11.04 and Mint 12, and for both, I get the same problem.

I am following the guide "Ruby On Rails Tutorial", and I also have a PDF installation guide called "Ruby On Rails Ubuntu Linux Mint.

I get to the part where it says type rvm notes - which lists stuff to install. I then install all that stuff, and then when I type rvm it says "there is no rvm". Clearly, there was an rvm for me to type rvm notes.

I have searched the drive (sudo find / -name rvm, and I get 11 entries, including /etc/profie.d/rvm.sh and /etc/rvmrc. There is also a ruby-rvm.

I gave myself a little time to test Django and Ruby, but I seem to be getting nowhere with Ruby.

I am about to try the Turnkey Ubuntu Rails installation in Virtual Box, but I would still like to know why I cannot install it in Ubuntu or Mint. I suspect it is the same problem on both.

Answer 1

I have not tried this lately but it seems up to date and I trust Ryan Biggs. See his post on installing Ruby & Rails on Ubuntu and I'm sure you'll figure it out.