Setup Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Discussion

I believe in the line "sudo apt-get install postgresql-common -t raring," raring should actually be saucy. Also in the line "rails new myapp -d postgres," postgres should be postgresql.

Thanks for the tutorial, I think in case you installed ruby from source, you will need to execute the "gem install rails" command using sudo, to be like this: "sudo gem install rails" :)

Thank you. I just moved ubuntu from Win8 and didn't know how to do it.

Thanks! Awesome post! I'm using into my vagrant ubuntu 13.10 now!

all this packages are exists in ubuntu 13.10 ? When I try to apt-get on them, my ubuntu doesnt find this packages : sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev
libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Before gem install rails:
rbenv rehash
rbenv global 2.0.0-p247

Unable to locate package lib is what i get when I run
"

sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev lib
"

Admired the way you explained it. Super cool. Very well done.

Just a minor gripe: I tried to install postgres-9.3 as i was using 9.1 on saucy. The problem is it automatically removes the package logrotate and the packages that depend on them. In my case it removed riak (basho.com) and is needed for my work. You can add a warning in the 9.3 install and ask users to wait till Trusty tahr (or) use the default 9.1 bundle.

If you have gem uglifier in your Gemfile, then you don't need to install nodejs.

I have a problem installing rails following the instructions:

$ gem install rails
Successfully installed rails-4.0.1
Parsing documentation for rails-4.0.1
Done installing documentation for rails after 1 seconds
1 gem installed
$ rails -v
The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install rails

little help?

Excellent explanation! Thank you very much

First of all, thanks for the tutorial.

Secondly I run into a problem while trying to create my database.

I used your instructions to create my own postgres user but apparently I receive this error when I run rake db:create :

Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"postgresql", "encoding"=>"unicode", "database"=>"appname_development", "pool"=>5, "username"=>"myusername", "password"=>"mypassword", "host"=>"localhost", "port"=>5432}

where myusername and mypassword are the ones I used to create my postgres user after configuring the database.yml file.

I then tried to see if the user is in the pg_roles database( http://ideone.com/HkDoXO ) and I tried to change the password in the console and restarted the server but I still got the error.

The only way I managed to make rake db:create work was to use the "postgres" user ( and I think this one was created by postgresql automatically).

When i run gem install rails, I receive this error message:

ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

Can you help me to overtake this issue? Thanks you.

This is awesome Chris, I did a search for installing "ruby on rails ubuntu" and it popped up with a link and your image next to it. I've been staying up to date with the rails eco system and have built a few niche websites using rails but I"m glad to see you're still going strong.

you forgot to add nodejs package, a fundamental dependency to start webrick on ubuntu

Thanks a million! This process isn't exactly intuitive for someone who is just starting to learn Rails development, which is funny because starting Django on Ubuntu was a piece of the proverbial cake. Why the heck doesn't the Ubuntu team get their act together and make this just as easy?

Hi Chris,
Thanks for this awesome guide.
I am facing problem for installing postgres sql,
its saying:
Package postgresql-9.2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'postgresql-9.2' has no installation candidate

Creating a new user in postgres did not provide the necessary permissions to create a database with "rake db:create." Perhaps modify it to make the user a superuser (-su) or explain how to alter the user role with "ALTER ROLE chris CREATEDB;"

thanks for your info.....bravo ubuntu 13.10 by achek LPMP-Aceh

Hi, I got this error when entered this command:
sudo -u postgres createuser aaa -s
"could not change directory to "/root": Permission denied"

I am new to both ruby and ubuntu and am just wondering where the default directory is for the config/database.yml? Apologies in advance if its quite simple

Great guide for a *nix n00b like me!!

Only one issue, the "add-apt-repository" stuff was reporting "command not found" so I had to search elsewhere to sort that.

But again, thanks my friend, best guide ever :)

if i copy a new rails app and then cd in and type bundle install, it says "The program 'bundle' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install ruby-bundler"

how can i get it work.
infact doing rails on a new folder says i got to install rails using"sudo apt-get install rails". why like this?
(things were easier with windows)

Setting up LAMP, PHP, and Ruby/Rails on an Amazon EC2 instance, running Ubuntu:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy

so this is cool. Installing liquid template (Shopify's templating language / framework), drupal, wordpress, and other options. Be fun to set up an old-skool slash-dot server maybe later.

Sound interesting to anyone? If so I'll post my ongoing results here. So far -- stumbles over Amazon's documentation on getting started... but once you have your instance up, everything is straight out of the web, As Amazon claims, it is like having the server in front of you, So (not to beat a dead horce here) It is as if I have my work server here on my coffee table which works for me!
Oh yeah my micro-instance is free for 12 months while I try to do something with it ;)

You should have told us how to click "Ok" in terminal. :D

Hi Chris, thanks for the tutorial. I'm new to ruby on rails and is currently trying to set it up on ubuntu 13.10. I've gotten as far as setting up the postgresql but i keep getting this:

try wget --help for more options
gpg: no valid open PGP data found

after typing :

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://apt.postgresql.org/p... precise-pgdg main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list"
wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/p... | sudo apt-key add -

What do i do?

Hey thanks for posting this! I set up a user with full permissions on my Linode VPS and then disabled root access for security reasons. Maybe for that reason I am getting "rbenv not found" after I type "rbenv install 2.1.0". Any ideas?

Thanks for this great article. I'm a newbie and moving pretty slowly in getting the environment set up, so this really helps. At this point, it looks like I have Ruby and Rails installed, I've set up myapp and done the "rails server" command at the end, but the http://localhost:3000 doesn't show me anything ("Problem loading page" message). Do you have any idea what might be wrong? Thanks!

Nice post, you could improve adding imagemagick or graphicsmagick as well

How to install script on apache2 ubuntu 13.10

Rails setup has never been easier! Well done mate - you are legendary!

very cool, big thanks!

when i restart terminal it doesn't see ruby anymore :(

This is the very cool every, Thanks for your nice tuts.

Everything worked fine until I tried to add test the website (http://localhost:3000). I received an error that stated "no Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb). I ran a trace, but it seems that everything else loaded properly. Do I need to add the rakefile?

Hi Chris,

I have this error : No binary rubies available for: ubuntu/13.10/i386/ruby-2.1.0.

Thanks for that!

Thank you! :)

Very helpful guide. Works on my ubuntu 13.10. Thanks!

Awesome! Many thanks, Chris

This worked great, thank you so much!!!

I had a little trouble on how to save the git SSH key to a /home/user/ folder, but figured it out with a friend's help. Thanks!

Geez, wish I'd seen this when I was setting up Ruby & RoR on Ubuntu. What is the reason for installing node.js? I've noticed I always have to install the ruby racer for JS stuff, but I don't on our work server. At work we have node.js installed. Does node.js provide JS abilities (if that's the right word) for process .js files?

Chris - 'setup' is a noun, and 'set up' is a verb, and you've misused 'setup' in this article, in other articles you've written on gorails.com, and in replies to this article. Please take a few minutes to learn the correct the usage of 'set up' and 'setup'.

Thank you!
Great Job