Setup ruby/rvm/rails on a fresh ubuntu system

gistfile1.txt

# Log in, change password
passwd

# Add deploy user
adduser deploy

# Add user to sudoers
visudo

# Update apt packages and upgrade installed packages
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade

# Install packages
apt-get 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 subversion git-core unixodbc unixodbc-dev tdsodbc freetds-dev

# Edit /etc/hosts to add an entry for rs3

# Install rvm
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable
usermod -a -G rvm deploy

# You may need to log out / log back in at this point.
rvm install 1.9.3
rvm use 1.9.3 --default

# APACHE
sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-prefork-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev

# PASSENGER
gem install passenger
rvmsudo passenger-install-apache2-module

setup_continued.md

These parts are manually done

Create the deploy user and add them to sudoers. Syntax: deploy ALL=(ALL) ALL

adduser deploy
visudo

Create nginx start script (/etc/init.d/nginx)

See https://gist.github.com/604841

ubuntu_ruby_setup.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Inspired by Josh Frye's https://github.com/joshfng/railsready/blob/master/railsready.sh
# This setup differs in that it uses system-wide RVM and SQLServer instead of system ruby/mysql

shopt -s extglob
set -e

# Check if the user has sudo privileges.
sudo -v >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo $(whoami) has no sudo privileges ; exit 1; }

echo "Creating install dir..."
cd && mkdir -p railsready/src && cd railsready && touch install.log
echo "done.."

# Update the system before going any further
echo "Updating system..."
sudo apt-get update >> install.log && sudo apt-get -y upgrade >> install.log
echo "done.."

# Install build tools
echo "Installing build tools..."
sudo apt-get -y install \
    wget build-essential libxslt1.1 libssl-dev libxslt1-dev libxml2 libffi-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev >> install.log
echo "done..."

# Install git-core
echo "Installing git..."
sudo apt-get -y install git-core >> install.log
echo "done..."

# Install necessary libs for SQLServer
sudo apt-get -y install unixodbc unixodbc-dev

# FreeTDS
sudo apt-get -y install tdsodbc freetds-dev

# RVM
bash < <( curl -L http://bit.ly/rvm-install-system-wide )

# add this to /etc/profile: . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm"

# Add deploy user to the rvm group
usermod -aG rvm reploy

# Log out and log back in as deploy
su deploy

# Install Ruby
echo "Downloading Ruby 1.9.2p136. This will take awhile. Go get coffee."
rvm install 1.9.2
echo "done..."

# Make 1.9.2 the default ruby
rvm use 1.9.2 --default


# Reload bash
echo "Reloading bashrc so ruby and rubygems are available..."
source ~/.bashrc
echo "done..."

echo "Installing Bundler and Passenger..."
sudo gem install bundler passenger --no-ri --no-rdoc
echo "done..."

# Install nginx
mkdir ~/src && cd ~/src
wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.8.54.tar.gz
tar -xzvf nginx-0.8.54.tar.gz

# I actually do this from the interactive installer, but I think this will give the same result.
# We need to install from source to add the "--with-http_stub_status_module" flags, which is needed by things like munin
rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module --nginx-source-dir=/home/deploy/src/nginx-0.8.54 --prefix=/usr/local/nginx --auto  --extra-configure-flags="--with-http_stub_status_module" 

echo "Installation is complete!"

cd ~/railsready/