Play with ubuntu

Once installed Ubuntu on your system, following steps needs to be done to set up the rails application without any issues.

Packages needs to be installed:

• $ sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2
• $ sudo apt-get install libapr1-dev
• $ sudo apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev
• $ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
• $ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
• $ sudo apt-get install apache2
• $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
• $ sudo apt-get install mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
• $ sudo apt-get install ruby
• $ sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8
• $ sudo gem install bundler

Apache + Passenger configuration :

• $ sudo gem install passenger
• $ sudo passenger-install-apache2-module
  
  Following file has to be modified,  after completed the above installation,
• $ sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
      <VirtualHost *:8080>
      LoadModule passenger_module /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.2/libout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
      PassengerRoot /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.2
      PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  
      RailsEnv development
      ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
      ServerName localhost
  
      DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/project/testapp/public
      <Directory /home/ubuntu/project/testapp/public>
      AllowOverride all
      # MultiViews must be turned off.
      Options -MultiViews
      </Directory>
      ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
      # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
      # alert, emerg.
      LogLevel warn
      CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
      </VirtualHost>
  Save the above file.
• To configure your port no,   $ sudo vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf
      NameVirtualHost *:8080
      Listen 8080
• Restart your apache service, $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
• Restart your mysql service if needed, $ sudo service mysql restart