Step by step commands for getting mod_rails installed on Ubuntu

Mod-Rails on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev libmysql-ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev ruby1.8 ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient16-dev libmysqlclient16 libnet-daemon-perl libopenssl-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8 libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 mysql-client mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.1 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev zlib1g-dev

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/local/bin/irb

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
tar xvzf rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.0
sudo ruby setup.rb

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert libapr1 libapr1-dev libaprutil1 libmagic1 libpcre3 libpq5 openssl apache2-prefork-dev

sudo gem install passenger

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-1.0.1/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
RailsSpawnServer /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-1.0.1/bin/passenger-spawn-server
RailsRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
RailsMaxPoolSize 2