Commands to setup Ruby on Rails on Amazon EC2 with Amazon Linux

rails on ec2

sudo yum update
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum install git pcre pcre-devel gcc make zlib zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel sqlite-devel

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
mkdir -p ~/.rbenv/plugins
cd ~/.rbenv/plugins

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git

<< restart terminal >>

rbenv install 2.1.2
rbenv global 2.1.2
rbenv rehash

gem update --system
echo "gem: --no-document\n" >> ~/.gemrc
gem install rails

git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
./configure
make
sudo make install
node -v    // just to make sure it works