How to install Ruby on Rails on almost any popular Operating System?

17 Mar 2009

cheat sheets, rails posted by kapil

My friends who are starting with Rails usually ask – how to install rails on “operating system of their choice”? And I end up searching for best tutorial for every operating system and sharing that link. On a lazy tuesday morning, I decided to collect all the good links and share it here. If you think I am missing any OS or a great tutorial, suggest the link. Thanks.

Following the DRY (don’t repeat yourself) principle, I am just putting the links of best tutorial (in my opinion) for every operating system.

Mac	Official Rails Tutorials from Apple Developer Website – http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html
Leopard	This is one of the most comprehensive tutorial on installing rails on Mac OS X 10.5(leopard) http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/02/ruby-rails-leopard
Ubuntu	Installing Rails on Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2007/05/09/install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-feisty-fawn
Vista	http://www.michaelwales.com/ruby-on-rails/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows-vista
Windows XP	http://agilo.us/2009/03/15/rails-on-windows/
Windows 2003	http://kosmaczewski.net/2005/11/25/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-windows-2003/
RedHat	http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/ruby/
Solaris	http://www.nowastedmoves.com/2009/geekery/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-solaris-10-1008-2/ Also check out cskruby optimized for the Sun Solaris Platform http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/
CentOS	http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/178186
Virtual PC	http://www.grapethinking.com/installing-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-on-virtual-pc-to-run-ruby-on-rails Yes, I know this is not a operating system