Installing Rails and RadRails

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Installing RadRails

Install Ruby

Install ruby, gem, and a MySQL helper

sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential

sudo apt-get install rubygems

sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby1.8

Now fix gem

sudo gedit /usr/bin/gem

Find: require 'rubygems'

Add below: require 'rubygems/gem_runner'

Find: Gem.manage_gems

Comment it out: #Gem.manage_gems

Update gem

Run both of these. If there are errors, Google them. sudo gem update --system sudo gem update

Install Rails

sudo gem install rails

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