Mohammad Forouzani

Derek Silvers – unafraid to tell the truth

Posted on 25. Sep, 2007 by forouzani.

The rails community has been in flamewar shock over the past few days. One of the Ruby on Rails ‘icons’ – CDbaby – has turned around and given rails a major slap in the face. I have nothing more than respect for Derek. That doesn’t mean I agree with his conclusions, but in a time [...]

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Compiling and Installing Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu/Debian

Posted on 04. Feb, 2007 by forouzani.

The following will install the latest versions of Ruby, Rails and Mongrel on a Ubuntu machine:
# sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev
# wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz (stable ruby)
# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
# tar -xzf ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
# cd ruby-1.8.6
# vim ext/Setup
Uncomment the entries for readline and zlib – save changes and exit
# ./configure –prefix=/usr (we want to install in /usr/bin [...]

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