HOWTO: Install a Rails Development Environment on Debian on Virtualbox inside Windows 7 & 8

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#Instruction Sources:
# Guest Additions on Debian - http://virtualboxes.org/doc/installing-guest-additions-on-debian/
sudo su -
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
m-a prepare #Click on Install Guest Additions… from the Devices menu, then run 
mount /media/cdrom.
sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run #and follow the instructions on screen.
# Install XFCE4 - http://wiki.debian.org/Xfce
su -
apt-get install xorg xfce4 xfce4-goodies
startxfce4
# Install CURL
sudo apt-get install curl
# Install Ruby and RVM - https://rvm.io/rvm/install/
 \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
# Install Rails, RubyGems, and Dependencies - http://stackoverflow.com/a/8954748/1376201
echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"' >> ~/.bashrc
~/.bashrc
sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion
rvm install ruby-head
rvm use ruby-head
gem install rails
# Integrate RVM with Gnome Terminal - https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/
# Install Sublime Text 2 - https://gist.github.com/2716568
# Solarize Gnome Terminal
# Install Nodejs - https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager
apt-get install python g++ make
mkdir ~/nodejs && cd $_
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd `ls -rd node-v*`
./configure
sudo make install
# 11. Install Postgres and Dependencies
# 12. Install Project Gems (Sassy, Postgres, HAML, Heroku, Cukes, Bootstrap)
sublime_text ~/Projects/<project>/Gemfile
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