Setting Up Ubuntu 9.10 for Ruby On Rails Development

February 1st, 2010 by

This is a document I put together at the beginning of 2010 while building yet another Ubuntu VM, digging through our internal documentation to try and find out what I needed. We’ve got the answers, and generally Ruby, Rails, and Ubuntu are pretty good about telling you how to install tools if you don’t have them yet.

But the answers are spread out and distributed randomly. Plus, I can only see “The program ‘______’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install ______” so many times before I lose interest and put off the task.

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Posted in Adam Bachman, Configuration, Linux, MySQL, Passenger, Programming, Ruby, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Ruby on Rails, ubuntu | 4 Comments »

environmentalist 0.2.3 released — supports rails 2.3.2

April 4th, 2009 by

Just a heads up that I’ve released environmentalist 0.2.3. You can update with:


  sudo gem install environmentalist

The only substantial change in this release is that we moved the loading of postboot.rb to the bottom of the boot.rb file as opposed to the top of config/environment.rb. This was necessary because common db rake tasks like db:create and db:drop stopped loading the environment in 2.3.2.

As a recap, environmentalist provides an executable that converts a rails app’s config structure. The basic idea is that environments themselves are now first-class citizens, allowing you to create several environments (e.g. staging, prodtest, demo, etc.) in a clean, organized fashion. Each environment is given its own folder where it can store its own set of configuration files (think mongrel configs, apache configs, etc.) without polluting the top-level config/ directory.

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