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Quick guide to installing Ruby on Rails (Fedora 7)

April 16th, 2008

First make sure Ruby is installed first.

# yum install ruby ruby-rdoc ruby-irb rubygems

Next, update the GEM repository by running

# gem update

Followed by…

# gem install -y rails --include-dependencies

yum install mod_fcgid

Add the following virtual host config to your apache config file /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

SetEnv RAILS_ENV development
ServerName rails
DocumentRoot /path/application/public/
ErrorLog /path/application/log/apache.log

<Directory /path/application/public/>
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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