SH Script to Install Ruby from Source

#!/bin/sh
#
# Install ruby on rails 
#
# Author : Daniel Reslie
# Date   : 2/15/2011
#

RUBY_VERSION = 1.9.2-p136
LOCAL_USER = daniel

# install a couple tools to make the server usable
sudo apt-get install gcc make vsftpd ssh

# install the mysql database.  you will prompted to provide a root password along the way.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

#install all the prereqs for what we are going to install/build/run

sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl0.9.8 libssl-dev libzlib-ruby libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby


# download and compile ruby source

cd /home/${LOCAL_USER}

# install ruby
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-${RUBY_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar -zxf ruby-${RUBY_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd ruby-${RUBY_VERSION}
./configure
make
sudo make install

# now to install rails
gem install rails

# this takes awhile