Ruby development environment on CentOS 5.9

ruby-on-centos.md

Requirements

• CentOS 5.9
• remi Yum repository - http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/
• EPEL Yum repository - http://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/fedora-epel/5/i386/repoview/epel-release.html

Getting Started

Install dependency packages

$ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=remi update -y
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install git vim-enhanced -y
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libcurl-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel openssl-devel -y

Setup the rbenv

sstephenson/rbenv · GitHub

$ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ exec $SHELL -l

Install rbenv plugins

$ mkdir .rbenv/plugins
$ cd .rbenv/plugins
$ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git
$ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv-default-gems.git
$ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv-gem-rehash.git
$ git clone git://github.com/rkh/rbenv-update.git

Run rbenv update

$ cd ~/
$ rbenv update

Install the Ruby

$ rbenv install 2.0.0-p0
$ rbenv global 2.0.0-p0

Install RubyGems

$ gem update --system
$ gem install rake
$ gem install bundler
$ gem cleanup

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