Installing Rails in Kubuntu 12.10

RoR can be installed by first installing Ruby, then RubyGems and finally Rails. The recommended way as of today is to install those components via RVM.

1. Open terminal then execute \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

2. Open new terminal then execute source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm. This command would put
   [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function
   to ~/.bash_profile.
3. In my case, Konsole does not run as login shell. Which means it doesn’t read ~/.bash_profile. As a workaround, add the codes below in ~/.bashrc

   if test -f ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm; then
       [ "$(type -t rvm)" = "function" ] || source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
   fi

   then execute source ~/.bashrc. RVM doesn’t recommend this. Do this at your own risk.

4. Verify
   1. rails new test-app
   2. cd test-app
   3. rails server
   4. Open a browser then go to http://localhost:3000
5. If you encounter ExecJS::RuntimeUnavailable error when executing rails server install node.js

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install nodejs npm

Desclaimer: I’m a newbie in rails. I documented what I encountered and what I searched across the net so that I have a guide next time I install rails.

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