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Installing Rails @ Amazon Linux

Steps

  • Build tools:

      sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
    
  • Dependencies:

      yum install -y gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel zlib zlib-devel \
      libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel make bzip2 autoconf automake libtool bison iconv-devel
    
  • Install RVM

      bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
    
  • Install Ruby

      rvm install 1.9.2
    
  • Install Rails, Bundler (problem was here)

      gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri
      gem install rails --no-rdoc --no-ri
    
  • MySQL

      sudo yum install sqlite3-dev
    
  • Node JS

      wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.15/node-v0.6.15.tar.gz
      tar -xf node-v0.6.15.tar.gz 
      cd node-v0.6.15
      ./configure
      sudo make install
    

Shortcut way to try out:

sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/fedora/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install nodejs

Problem #1:zlib

Symptoms

[ec2-user@domU-12-31-38-04-80-4D zlib]$ gem install rails --include-dependencies
    ERROR:  Loading command: install (LoadError)
        no such file to load -- zlib
    ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
        uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::InstallCommand

Solution

Originally taken from here

cd /home/ec2-user/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p320/ext/zlib
ruby extconf.rb --with-zlib-include=/usr/include --width-zlib-lib=/usr/lib
make 
sudo make install
gem install rails --include-dependencies

Problem #2: openssl

Originally taken from here

cd /home/ec2-user/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p320/ext/openssl
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
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