rails symphonies

SQLite is good for development and testing, and depending on your needs production even. By default Typo uses SQLite for production. The greatest advantage is that it’s light. (like duh), and very easy to deploy.

Note: There are two versions of SQLite, version 2 and 3. They produce databases which are incompatible with each other.

Version 2

Enter into the Terminal, and as root execute:
yum install gcc ruby-devel sqlite2-devel
gem install sqlite-ruby

If you see this, you want the ruby version, so select 1 (enter it in).

Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)
 1. sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 (ruby)
 2. sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 (mswin32)
 3. sqlite-ruby 2.2.2 (ruby)
 4. sqlite-ruby 2.2.2 (mswin32)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
>

Edit the file RAILS_ROOT/config/database.yml. For now we are using the development environment. The environment you are deploying your database should look like so.

development:
  adapter: sqlite
  dbfile: db/development.sql

Version 3

Enter into the Terminal, and as root execute:
yum install gcc ruby-devel sqlite-devel
gem install sqlite3-ruby

If you see this, you want the ruby version, so select 2 (enter it in).

Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)
 1. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.1 (mswin32)
 2. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.1 (ruby)
 3. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.0 (mswin32)
 4. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.0 (ruby)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
>

Edit the file RAILS_ROOT/config/database.yml. For now we are using the development environment. The environment you are deploying your database should look like so.

development:
  adapter: sqlite3
  dbfile: db/development.sql

Conclusion

There you have it, your database is now set up!

Note:

• I recommend installing Ruby on Rails via RubyGems
• As long as you have Ruby installed, you can install Ruby on Rails, just skip the step about installing Ruby.
• I have instructions if you are interested in Installing Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu.

Plan of Attack

This is a quick down and dirty guide to getting Ruby and Rails working in Fedora 7. You may notice this is installed into /tmp , I do this because its universal on all Fedora and Linux distributions.

• Install Ruby
• Install RubyGems via source
• Install Ruby on Rails using RubyGems
• Test Rails installation

• Certain commands need to be executed as root. Lines requiring to be run as root, begin with a hash (#). To enter root execute su - .
• If a line begins with a dollar sign ($), those can be run as a normal user.
• If a line begins with a hash or a dollar sign, do not enter the starting hash or dollar sign into the terminal

rails /tmp/railstest
cd /tmp/railstest
./script/server