Clone virtual machine

Boot up, open terminal window and run the following commands in order to configure network. (Updates the MAC address for the virtual network adapter.)

# rm -fr /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
# shutdown -r now

Packages to install…

sudo apt-get install vim
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3-doc
sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev
sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.4 postgresql-client  postgresql-client-8.4 postgresql-doc-8.4
sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.4
sudo apt-get install pgadmin3
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install git-arch git-doc git-csv git-svn git-email git-daemon-run git-gui gitk gitweb
sudo apt-get install ssh subversion libgssapi-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl rssh molly-guard
sudo apt-get install openssh-blacklist openssh-blacklist-extra socklog-run
sudo apt-get install rdist makejail subversion-tools db4.8-util

sudo apt-get install autoconf autoconf2.13 autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool gettext gettext-doc libtool-doc

sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev rubygems1.8 ruby1.8-examples ri1.8 rubygems-doc graphviz graphviz-doc

sudo apt-get install flex bison bison-doc

Setting up RVM

# System Wide RVM Installation
bash < <( curl -L http://bit.ly/rvm-install-system-wide )

# Setup of user defaults
edit /etc/adduser.conf
 - enable the EXTRA_GROUPS stuff and make sure the user is added to the 'rvm' group
edit /etc/skel/.bashrc to add the necessary RVM initialization stuff

sudo su -
rvm install ruby-1.9.2-p0

rvm install ruby-1.9.2-head

(notes on config of Postgres on Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL)

curl ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org:21//pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.gz > ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.gz
tar xvf ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.gz

cd ruby-1.9.2-p0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ror --enable-shared
make
make test
sudo make install

Create a file called /usr/local/ror/ror_env.sh. Add the following to it:

export PATH=/usr/local/ror/bin:$PATH

Run the command

sudo ln -s /usr/local/ror/ror_env.sh /etc/profile.d/ror_env.sh

Log out / Log in

Open a terminal window

$ which ruby
/usr/local/ror/bin/ruby
$ which gem
/usr/local/ror/bin/gem

sudo su -
gem update --system
gem install rails -v 3.0.3
gem install sqlite3-ruby
gem install pg
gem install passenger

passenger-install-nginx-module --prefix=/usr/local/ror --auto-download --auto