Installing Ruby and Rails on Fedora with RVM

Please note, I'm using the Fedora 17 Beta, but this should work on older versions as well. Each of these commands should be run in a Terminal window.

First, ensure you have your Fedora install up to date:

sudo yum update

Next, let's install the prerequisites we will need:

sudo yum install git-core curl make bzip2 gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel zlib zlib-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl openssl-devel

We are now ready to install RVM:

bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)

...followed by,

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bashrc

Optionally, you can add the following to the end of your .bashrc file to gain additional git features in your bash prompt:

PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '

Finally, reload your .bashrc file with the following command:

. .bashrc

Ensure that RVM is loaded with the following command, which should output "rvm is a function":

type rvm | head -1

The following steps will install Ruby, Rails and the Sqlite3 gem. Execute these in order:

first,

rvm install 1.8.7

then...

rvm use 1.8.7 --default

and then...

rvm install 1.9.3

after that...

rvm use 1.9.3 --default

followed by...

gem install rails

...and finally,

gem install sqlite3

After that, check out some code and bundle it up (bundle install) or create a new rails app (rails new testapp).