Zachary A Skaggs

Hey @chris I tried the setup again (using a VM this time, dual boot was being a pain), this time using Postgres, and it seems Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have support for postgres 11 out of the box.

I double checked the doc this time (lol), and I wasn't able to find these steps...these helped me successfully install Postgres:

wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

RELEASE=$(lsb_release -cs)
echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ ${RELEASE}"-pgdg main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list

Once the above were input, I was able to continue with the Postgres installation. :)

Wow! So it does! That's so strange that I somehow missed a whole section. Even more strange that I'm apparently so tired I documented it before double checking the workflow. So sorry! Thank you, I'm so excited to get started here. :)

I am totally new to Ruby and started with the installation documentation here (https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/18.04) on a totally fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

This isn't a complaint, I was able to work through these issues, but someone with less Ubuntu experience might not be able to so I wanted to propose some changes if that's alright.

First, git is not installed out of the box so the repo cannot be cloned without it.

sudo apt-get install git

Once rbenv is installed, trying to install Ruby will give you a compile error unless we also

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

When installing the compiler, we'll be told there are some extra missing dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev

After installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL, creating the database with the given command will give an error (even without setting a password.) Setting a MySQL password and modifying the config/database.yml file will resolve this issue.

Finally, when trying to run rails server in the last step, the command will fail unless nodejs is also installed

sudo apt-get install nodejs

And then will fail again without the (updated) version of Yarn. The default in the Ubuntu repo is not a recent enough version, so we need to add the Yarn repo, update, and install:

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

Once the above are followed, then the server will finally start and you're ready to begin!