> -----Original Message-----
> >>I'm attempting to setup a development environment with the latest 
> >>version of Kubuntu as my OS (I would use a Mac, just don't have the 
> >>cash for it right
> >>now)
> 
> You don't need a Mac to be cool (*whisper* Don't listen some 
> of the other people on this list, they are all indoctrinated 
> into the cult. 
> They will say anything for you to drink the magic Mac 
> koolaid). I mean, soon enough they will be using CISC 
> processors anyway, and then, what's the point? *drops glove* :P

Man, it's nice to know I'm not the only one... (in fact, since I got stuck
with a G5 at work, I really, really tried to like it. Now it runs the PPC
version of Ubuntu...)


> Why not just follow the generalized instructions here:
> 
> http://www.rubyonrails.org/down
> 
> In sum:
> 
> 1. Install Ruby.
>     $ sudo apt-get install ruby
> 2. Install RubyGems
>     $ sudo apt-cache search gems
>     $ sudo apt-get install WhateverYouFound 3. Install Rails 
> with RubyGems
>     $ gem install rails --include-dependencies

I've installed RoR on 2 separate machines running Ubuntu, and each time I
just did:

$ sudo aptitude install ruby

And downloaded the gem .tgz file from http://www.rubyonrails.org/down,
extracted and ran it:

$ tar zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
$ ruby setup.rb
$ gem install rails --include-dependencies

Keegan is right, there is no Debian package for gems (in fact, there *is* a
package called "gems", but it's not the Ruby gems).

If you want to install mysql or anything like that, you'll probably also
need:

$ sudo aptitude install libmysql-ruby1.8

(incidentally, I use aptitude instead of apt-get - aptitude takes all the
command line options that apt-get does, and also records everything in
/var/log/aptitude - I like to keep track of what I've installed...apt-get
doesn't log anything unless you specifically set it up to do so)




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