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Setup Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Discussion

Chris Oliver asked in General
Braydon Pacheco Braydon Pacheco

Hey all, I'm having trouble with installing rails. I followed all of the steps (including "rbenv rehash") but when I try "rails -v" I don't get any message. I've uninstalled using "gem uninstall rails -v 4.2.6" multiple times and re-installed but it didn't help. I eventually just moved onto postgresql which seemed to work fine but when I get to the final steps the "rails new myapp -d postgresql" doesn't seem to do anything. Any help is appreciated!

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Best tutorial I have ever seen. I've tried to install Ruby and Rails on Windows and that was a nightmare) Development server was very slow. Later on I have Kubuntu installed and faced a problem installing rails via RVM. Luckily I found this tutorial! It's great, because this article covers a lot of ways to install rails on linux. Thank you very much!

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thanks for this. very helpful

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Thanks a lot for this. Its running like a charm.

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prashant soni prashant soni

Help - I'm setting up ruby for first time. I'm using rbenv.
I wrote this in shell -

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
and when I write exec $SHELL. It throws an error like - exec $SHELL unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' syntax error: unexpected end of file .

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Hello Chris,

I'm new to rails using zsh (oh-my-zsh) and can't get to work the rails command in the terminal. Upon executing the commands in your tutorial, I replace .bashrc with .zshrc

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Any idea with this? Thanks!

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Same problem here.

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Double check that your ~/.bashrc has the rbenv lines in it. This happens when bash doesn't properly load rbenv, and that happens because it doesn't add it to the path in your ~/.bashrc.

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Just a short note. If you receive an error message regarding the YAML syntax when running rake db:create, make sure that you dont have any exclamation marks in you password. If so, just put the entire password between quotation marks.

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Ran these tonight on a Digital Ocean droplet. Went off without a hitch. Thanks!

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Awesome to hear! :)

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Hi, I am stuck at the Github step. I created the key fine and pasted it but when I run 'cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub' it says 'cat: /home/austin/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: No such file or directory'

I have minimal background in Linux and this is my first time installing ROR. I tried Googling some solutions but had no luck. Any ideas?

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Do I need the Github step?

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Austin, I am having this same result with `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` - Ubuntu 16.04... not sure what to do to resolve this either

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git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ru... ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
After typing my username (email) and password I get the error "remote: repository not found".

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Can anybody help me as i want to install Homebrew and ruby on rails on my Macbook OSX 10.8.5 2 months back i still could install homebrew but now it gives the following error.

Last login: Sat Oct 29 15:02:30 on ttys000

mrrobotas-MacBook-Pro:~ mrrobota$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubuserconte..."

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404

mrrobotas-MacBook-Pro:~ mrrobota$

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This guide is something that would have solved all my problems as I started getting into Rails development. I'll be recommending it to people getting started. Thanks for taking the time to prepare it.

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Thanks Matt! That means a lot. :D

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Perfect...
All directions are clear :)

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John Monaghan John Monaghan

The ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm didnt work for me, it was source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm

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Erickson Marcos Erickson Marcos

Thanks. Didn't have a problem installing ruby on rails on Ubuntu 16.04. Great Job

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Hi All,
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Using MySQL and everything went perfect until the end command, rake db:create then i received the below any idea?
rake db:create
(in /home/gary/myapp)
rake aborted!
LoadError: cannot load such file -- bundler/setup
/home/gary/myapp/config/boot.rb:3:in `<top (required)="">'
/home/gary/myapp/config/application.rb:1:in `<top (required)="">'
/home/gary/myapp/Rakefile:4:in `<top (required)="">'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

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Yes, ran it again and then ran "rake db:create" received the same error, BTW thank you for answering!

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Edy Ken Kiptoo Khanali Edy Ken Kiptoo Khanali

help out .. i got this error ..

Expected string default value for '--rc'; got false (boolean)

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Alexandre Ferreira Alexandre Ferreira

It's my favorite guide to use install RoR. Thaks!

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