install rbenv git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile Basic packages for Ruby sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential bison openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev Install ruby build to get latest git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git cd ruby-build sudo ./install.sh Install Ruby CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-readline-dir=/usr/include/readline" rbenv install 2.1.1 rbenv global 2.1.1 Install bundler gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc Rails gem install rails --no-ri --no-rdoc Also Install nodejs sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs