Here I go for my second Ruby on Rails install. This time it’s on a “virtual private server” at Rimuhosting

Installing a whole bunch of ruby stuff:

yum install ruby ruby-libs ruby-mode ruby-rdoc ruby-irb ruby-devel ruby-docs

Installing gems (check for latest version on RubyForge) 
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
tar zxvf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.0
ruby setup.rb

I installed rails:

gem install rails --include-dependencies

Now mySQL, which was installed but needed a bit of config:

chkconfig --add mysqld
chkconfig --level 3 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'somethingsmart'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h graphs.voneicken.com password 'somethingsmart'

Now we’re ready for the ruby mysql interface. First install the mysql-devel package (Rimu uses apt on FC5, not yum):

apt-get install mysql-client

and then the ruby interface itself:

gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/lib/mysql --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config

Now we’re ready for mongrel!

gem install mongrel

did it’s job without complaining. What a relief!