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Ruby

RailsInstaller for Linux?

It appears in this Github https://github.com/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-nix that there is a way to install the same Railsinstaller from railsinstaller.org on Linux...

But I don't understand how to interpret these instructions, could somebody please help? I know it's not necessary but I enjoy learning by trying.

2 Answers

Check out Rails Ready instead

In your terminal type sudo curl -O https://raw.github.com/joshfng/railsready/master/railsready.sh && bash railsready.sh

Thanks! I'll take a look. Any idea why the railinstaller github won't install though? It says it should work both on OSX and Linux.

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Thomas MacFarlane,

Which step are you getting stuck on?

Well, I tried

curl -L https://raw.github.com/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-nix/master/prepare_local.sh | bash -s -- ~/projects ~/installbuilder

Then navigated to the directory and ran sudo ./prepare.sh and it did half of the setup but then came up with a bunch of errors at then end. Not sure if I was did something wrong. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04