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Ubuntu 12.04 Ruby on Rails Development Environment

I haven't set up an install guide for the latest ubuntu release, largely because the last set of instructions worked pretty closely with the latest and greatest Ubuntu, 12.04 Precise Pangolin, however when installing today, I found that there were enough differences in the way that I configure my setup to justify an update, so here it goes. Yes, I'm late to the party, but a quick google search didn't find anything that I felt was as complete for my requirements as my previous install guides, so here I go.

As always with my install guides, I have included here is just about everything you'll need (and then some) to get started with ruby on rails development with Ubuntu 12.04 as a platform. These are my settings and preferences, and this is certainly not the only way of doing things, so keep that in mind.

Step 1: Get the repos ready and run updates.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

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tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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=Rails 3.0.pre on App Engine

You can Rails 3 on App Engine, but it won't be especially useful until bundler 10. You should try these instead:

- Rails 2.3.5: DataMapper version: http://gist.github.com/268192
- Rails 2.3.5: TinyDS version: http://gist.github.com/269075

==Install the Development Environment

The gems for the development environment include a pre-release appengine-tools gem that provides a pre-release version of jruby-rack.

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Backend Development

• node.js
  • Installation paths: use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.
  • Node.js HOWTO: Install Node+NPM as user (not root) under Unix OSes
  • Felix's Node.js Guide
  • Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • Node Cellar Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • JavaScript Event Loop
• Node.js for PHP programmers

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import argparse

try:
    from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection
except ImportError:
    sys.stderr.write('Please install boto ( http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/getting_started.html )\n')
    sys.exit(1)