RVM Installation Guide

RVMInstallGuide.txt

* Development Suite for Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential

* Git version control and curl http client utility
sudo apt-get install git-core
sudo apt-get install curl

* Core Development Libraries
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

* Nokogirl dependencies, which is an xml library used by RSpec
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev

* SQLLite 
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

* MySQL 
sudo apt-get install mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

* MySQL Server (optional)
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

* Run the following command to install RVM

bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

* Append the following two lines to end your .bashrc file.

# This loads RVM into a shell session.
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

* Source the .bashrc to make put the RVM command(s) in your path.
source .bashrc

* Install ruby 1.9.2
rvm install 1.9.2 

* Enable 1.9.2
rvm 1.9.2

* Build a new gemset for your working stuff and enable it
rvm use 1.9.2@working --create

* List your default gems
gem list

* Install a few handy gems
gem install rails
gem install nokogiri
gem install sqlite3-ruby
gem install mysql