Updated this post from Ubuntu Jaunty to Lucid.

Unless you have been living on one of the planets orbiting alpha centauri (or if you have nothing to do with computers, in which case you would not be reading this post), you must have heard of ruby on rails.

Below are the steps i went through to get ruby and rails installed and configured on a Ubuntu Jaunty (10.04) system.

Make sure that you have installed Oracle 11g or the Oracle 11g instant client on the Ubuntu server, before you start.

Get the ruby packages for ubuntu

sudo apt-get install ruby  ruby-dev  libopenssl-ruby1.8 irb ri rdoc

sudo apt-get install sqlite3

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-ruby libsqlite3-dev

Download, Install setup Gems

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

Install Rails 2

sudo gem install rails

Download and install the ruby interface for oracle

Download ruby-oci8 from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=256

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69454/ruby-oci8-2.0.4.tar.gz

tar -xzvf ruby-oci8-2.0.4.tar.gz

cd ruby-oci8-2.0.4/

make

sudo make install

Get the Enhanced ActiveRecord adapter for oracle

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/64456/activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter-1.2.2.gem

sudo gem install activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter-1.2.2.gem

You are all set to write and test your first ruby program using the rails framework .

Please see my followup post on writing a simple rails program with 11g