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Ubuntu 12.10 setup (RVM, PostgreSQL)

Basic pre-requisites

• Some utilities:

sudo apt-get install vim git curl

RVM

• install the pre-requisites:

sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
exec $SHELL
rvm install 2.0.0-p195
rvm use 2.0.0 --default
ruby -v

• Don't require rdoc and ri when installing gems:

echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc

• Install the latest rails (3.2.12):

gem i rails

SSH key/Heroku configuration

ssh-keygen -t rsa
wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh
heroku login
heroku keys:add

Git/Github configuration

git config --global color.ui true
git config --global user.name "Christopher Kobayashi"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | clipboard

• Add it to your GitHub ssh account page

• Test if it works:

ssh -T [email protected]

System dependencies for peculiar gems

• nokogiri: libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
• pg: postgresql libpq-dev
• rails related: nodejs
• mysql: mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
• sqlite3: sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
• capybara-webkit: libqt4-dev g++
• curb: libcurl4-gnutls-dev
• rmagick: graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat libmagickwand-dev

PostgreSQL setup

sudo -u postgres createuser chriskk
sudo -u postgres psql
postgres=# \password chriskk
postgres=# create database chriskk;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# grant all privileges on database chriskk to chriskk;

bundle exec rails dbconsole
# pass