FYI installed Rails 4.2.8 with ruby 2.4.1 and Postgres 9.6 on Zesty Zapus beta2 without any problem following the guide and updating just some packages. ;) Thanks Chris!

I am getting the following error while installing nodejs

## Confirming "zesty" is supported...

+ curl -sLf -o /dev/null 'https://deb.nodesource.com/...

## Your distribution, identified as "zesty", is not currently supported, please contact NodeSource at https://github.com/nodesour... if you think this is incorrect or would like your distribution to be considered for support

awesome article,
i just did all steps and they are running as it is.
thank you to author

am having issues with creating a user on postgresql

I am curious to know, why you recommended rbenv when installing ruby. The steps in rvm look a lot simpler and intuitive than in rbenv.

Really good article - very helpful:

On Ubuntu 17.04, following your article from scratch, also had to do:

sudo gem install rake
sudo gem install rubocop

then I was able to run:
gem install rails -v 5.1.2

and it all worked!

Thanks for that!
G

got error when creating MYSQL DB: YAML syntax error occurred while parsing /home/xxxxxxx/myapp/config/database.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented using spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Error: (<unknown>): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 17 column 3

I'm getting a few errors after following this method and trying to create a new rails app (with postgres):
1.

The dependency tzinfo-data (>= 0) will be unused by any of the platforms Bundler is installing for. Bundler is installing for ruby but the dependency is only for x86-mingw32, x86-mswin32, x64-mingw32, java. To add those platforms to the bundle, run `bundle lock --add-platform x86-mingw32 x86-mswin32 x64-mingw32 java`.

2.

There was an error while trying to write to
`/home/alan/.bundle/cache/compact_index/rubygems.org.443.29b0............
It is likely that you need to grant write permissions for that path.

3.

Could not find minitest-5.10.3 in any of the sources
Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.

^^ which doesn't work because if I run bundle install, I get a repeat of error 2.

That's a nice tutorial.

Thanks,
Kristaps

Very thorough tutorial. Much appreciated.

Using PostgreSQL when I run rake db:create, I get the following error:
PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: role "xxx" does not exist
where xxx is my Linux username.

I'm using Xubuntu 17.04 with Rails 5.1.4 and Ruby 2.4.2.

Ruby installed successfully ! Thank you.

Couldn't install rails 4.2.9 with ruby 2.3.3 until i installed ruby-dev ("sudo apt install ruby-dev")