Setting up Hardy for Ruby on Rails Hosting

These instructions should take you through the process of setting up Ubuntu Server version 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for Ruby on Rails hosting using Apache and Passenger Phusion (mod_rails). This will also step you through adding certain programs needed to install the Rmagick gem required to add Captcha to a RoR application and the mysql gem.

Install the server with just the SSH server option so you can copy and paste the commands for simplicity

So once you have the base installed, make sure your distribution is up to date:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install the package required for building software, siince we will be doing some compiling:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

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