Installing Rails on Ubuntu 13.04

Question

I tried installing rails according to this guide, and when I do, I get this error:

$ sudo gem install rails
  WARNING:  Error fetching data: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - getaddrinfo (http://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)
  WARNING:  Error fetching data: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - getaddrinfo (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
  Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
  ERROR:  Error installing rails:
      ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

          /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
      from extconf.rb:1:in `<main>'


  Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/json-1.8.0 for inspection.
  Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/json-  1.8.0/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out

I've never seen anything like this before, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 03 '13 at 13:10

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Try to re-install Ruby, then Gem and then install Rails. Problem maybe is on Ruby or Gem.

answered Jun 03 '13 at 13:10

Ziyaddin Sadygly

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 09 '19 at 19:37

Try using rvm or rbenv; they both works great... I personally prefer rvm because I want to keep gem-sets separate for different projects. See rbenv repository if you want to simple installation just using one ruby version. I've written a blog post on Rbenv Installation

Installing rbenv

Setup:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Install required components for Ruby and other dependencies.

sudo apt-get install git-core -y
sudo apt-get install curl -y
sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev libgdbm-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config libffi-dev
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo ‘export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"’ >> ~/.profile
echo ‘eval "$(rbenv init -)"’ >> ~/.profile

(Note: modify .bash_profile , .bash_login or .zshrc according to your needs.)

Now install some required rbenv plugins.

cd  ~/.rbenv/
mkdir plugins
cd  ~/.rbenv/plugins
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git

Restart the terminal.

Installing Ruby

rbenv  install 1.9.3-p385

Set your global Ruby version.

rbenv global 1.9.3-p385
rbenv rehash
ruby -v

Install Ruby on Rails Framework
```
gem install bundler
gem install rails
```
(Don't panic, installing rails will take some time.)

Installing Rails on Ubuntu 13.04

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