I just dealt with getting rails going on Debian. I switched from Fedora. Basically I used the following two links for ruby/rails/mongrel installs. <br><br><a href="https://forum.bytemark.co.uk/viewtopic.php?pid=1697">https://forum.bytemark.co.uk/viewtopic.php?pid=1697
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<a href="http://www.jkraemer.net/articles/2006/07/07/mongrel-apache-and-rails-on-debian-sarge">http://www.jkraemer.net/articles/2006/07/07/mongrel-apache-and-rails-on-debian-sarge</a><br><br>Debian is a little more work to get stuff going than Fedora, but people say its suppose to be more stable. Being a newb I also had to compile the kernel for the first time because it defaults to only supporting 900MB of RAM.
<br><br>For newbies like me not knowing how to compile a new kernel<br><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21">http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21</a><br><br>Cheers,<br>Dallas<br><br>
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:neil@aldur.co.uk">neil@aldur.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div></div><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marcus Rueckert</b> <<a href="mailto:mrueckert@suse.de" title="mailto:mrueckert@suse.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mrueckert@suse.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>yesterday i checked the ubuntu package list for dapper for rubygems<br>packages. none.</blockquote>
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<div>Source installing rubygems isn't that big a deal. And there is a Debian package at <a href="http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb/unstable/" title="http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb/unstable/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb/unstable/</a> that gets 0.8.11 rubygems installed on a Debian based machine. From that you can bootstrap the latest version with a gem update --system.
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<div>HTH</div>
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<div>NeilW</div><br> </div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Neil Wilson (<a href="mailto:neil@aldur.co.uk" title="mailto:neil@aldur.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">neil@aldur.co.uk
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