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Ruby On Rails (Part 1)

Plenty of programming languages are available and new are merging everyday to simplify coding.

One of the famous one is Ruby on Rails. I am writing these posts as i am going through learning Ruby On Rails.

I will highlight the do’s and dont’s as i discover during my exploration in this programming language. Hope these speed up your process in learning.

OS Used : Ubuntu 16.10

Editing Tool : Atom 1.8.0

Browser : Firefox 47.0

What is Ruby -->  Dynamic and Object Oriented Programming language emerged in mid 1990

What is Rails --> A web development framework written in Ruby programming language

What is Ruby on Rails --> Is a 100% Open source web development framework constantly updated by community and provides easy development and deployment web applications.

Setup Ruby on Rails

Step 1 --> Install necessary

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev

Step 2 --> Get rbenv

cd
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

Step 3 --> Get ruby

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

Step 4 --> Install Downloaded items

rbenv install 2.3.1
rbenv global 2.3.1

Step 5 --> Check Ruby Installation

ruby -v

Step 6 --> Install Bundler

gem install bundler

Step 7 --> Make Bundler Executable

rbenv rehash

Step 8 --> Install NodeJS

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Step 9 --> Install Rails

gem install rails -v 4.2.6

Step 10 --> Make Rails executable

rbenv rehash

Step 11 --> Check Rails Installation

rails -v

Step 12 --> Install MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

 

Part 1 has covered the introduction and installation of Ruby on Rails with MySQL.

Stay tuned for Part 2 – Creating our first application

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