ruby2_1_rails4_1-setup.md

Setting up Ruby, Rails, Nginx, Passenger, PostgreSQL 9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for Windows Azure

Last updated: 12/31/2013

Fix the locale issue

• Edit /etc/default/locale as sudo.
• Append LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" at the end of the file, save and quit.
• sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
• sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Install the necessary packages to install rbenv and build Ruby

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get -y install build-essential bison openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core
• sudo apt-get -y install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3
• sudo apt-get -y install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Install rbenv

• curl https://raw.github.com/fesplugas/rbenv-installer/master/bin/rbenv-installer | bash
• Locate this line:

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

• Edit ~/.bashrc and prepend this:

export RBENV_ROOT="${HOME}/.rbenv"

if [ -d "${RBENV_ROOT}" ]; then
  export PATH="${RBENV_ROOT}/bin:${PATH}"
  eval "$(rbenv init -)"
fi

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

• git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
• git clone git://github.com/dcarley/rbenv-sudo.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/rbenv-sudo
• source ~/.bashrc

Install Ruby

• rbenv install 2.1.0
• rbenv rehash
• rbenv global 2.1.0

Install Rails

• gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc
• gem install rails -v 4.1.0.beta1 --no-ri --no-rdoc
• rbenv rehash

Install Node.js

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

Install Passenger and nginx

• gem install passenger --no-ri --no-rdoc
• rbenv rehash
• rbenv sudo passenger-install-nginx-module
• wget -O init-deb.sh http://library.linode.com/assets/660-init-deb.sh
• sudo mv init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/nginx
• sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
• sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults
• sudo service nginx start

Install PostgreSQL

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get -y install postgresql libpq-dev
• sudo passwd postgres and enter password 2 times
• su -l postgres
• psql

psql (9.1.11)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'secr3t';
ALTER ROLE
postgres=# CREATE ROLE postgres LOGIN CREATEDB
postgres-# \q

• Edit /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf and find this line:

# Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
local   all             postgres                                peer

• Change it to this:

# Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
local   all             postgres                                md5

• /etc/init.d/postgresql restart