Steps to get up'n'running with Rails on OS X and Ubuntu

osx_rails_env_setup_in_all_steps.md

Steps to set up a Rails development environment on OS X:

• install Apple Command Line Tools
• install homebrew[1]: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
• install rvm: curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
• source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
• rvm install --disable-binary 1.9.3
• rvm use --default 1.9.3
• gem i rails

[1] Use brew command to install whatever database engine you need, ie brew install sqlite

ubuntu_rails_env_setup_in_all_steps.md

Steps to set up a Rails development environment on Ubuntu:

• install development dependencies with apt-get:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison pkg-config

• install rvm: curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
• source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
• rvm install --disable-binary 1.9.3
• rvm use --default 1.9.3
• gem i rails