Ruby on Rails Session 1: How to Build a Ruby on Rails on the Ubuntu.，railsubuntu

Ruby on Rails Session 1: How to Build a Ruby on Rails on the Ubuntu.，railsubuntu

About Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an application stack that provides developers with a framework to quickly create a variety of web applications. Ruby on Rails does take a little while to install on a virtual server, but luckily there are a lot of helpful tools to make this process as easy as possible. You can run this tutorial on your droplet as a user with sudo privileges. You can check out how to set that up here: Ubuntu Server Setup

Step One— Install Ruby with RVM

Before we do anything else, we should run a quick update to make sure that all of the packages we download to our VPS are up to date:

sudo apt-get update

Once that's done, we can start installing RVM, Ruby Version Manager. This is a great program that lets you use several versions of Ruby on one server; however, in this case, we will just use it to install the latest version of Ruby on the droplet.

If you do not have curl on your system, you can start by installing it:

sudo apt-get install curl

To install RVM, open terminal and type in this command:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

After it is done installing, load RVM. You may first need to exit out of your shell session and start up a new one.

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

In order to work, RVM has some of its own dependancies that need to be installed. To automatically install them:

rvm requirements

You may need to enter your root password to allow the installation of these dependencies.

On occasion the zlib package may be reported as missing. The RVM page describes the issue and the solution in greater detail here.

Step Two—Install Ruby

Once you are using RVM, installing Ruby is easy.

rvm install ruby

The latest ruby is now installed. However, since we accessed it through a program that has a variety of Ruby versions, we need to tell the system to use the version we just installed by default.

rvm use ruby --default

Step Three—Install RubyGems

The next step makes sure that we have all the required components of Ruby on Rails. We can continue to use RVM to install gems; type this line into terminal.

 rvm rubygems current

Step Four—Install Rails

Once everything is set up, it is time to install Rails. To start, open terminal and type in:

gem install rails

This process may take a while, be patient with it. Once it finishes you will have Ruby on Rails installed on your droplet.

-- source to network.

如果你用的是rails 2.X
可以在database.yml中用以下格式连接:

development:
adapter: sqlserver
database: 数据库名
host: 数据库服务器地址
username: 账号
password: 密码
参考资料：wiki.rubyonrails.org/...Server
 

需要学习一些的，但是初期不用学得太深入，学一些基本知识就可以开始学习ruby on rails。对ror有一定掌握以后，还是需要再回头补充ruby知识的。一些国内人写的ror入门书，我记得好像有个红皮的《ror完全自学手册》，就是先讲的ruby，用了不少篇幅呢，然后再讲的ror。不过我还是推荐国外人写的书，ruby经典的是《programing ruby》,这个内容很多，我推荐看华章翻译的那个ruby入门经典，前面ruby讲的挺好，后面还附带了ror的基础知识。再就是有个ruby for rails,这个书顾名思义了，也挺有名气的，但是个人感觉翻译得不好，若要是看，建议看原版，或者看完前面那个书后再来看这个。