Does that look familiar to you?
Rails does not work with Ruby version 1.8.3.
Please upgrade to version 1.8.4 or downgrade to 1.8.2.
Well, it happened to me again when I tried to put my latest project onto my server box. This time I decided to attack the problem. At Dirk Elmendorf’s “Economy Size Geek” blog I found a desctiption on how to use the ruby 1.8.4 backport: Breezy + Rails == No Go.
It turns out that, besides the 90 MiB download, it works like a charm.
Joe wrote a nice, clean and straightforward tutorial of how to install Rails on Ubuntu Breezy.
By the way, if you enter “rails apache2″ into Google, it returns said article as the very first result. Interesting …
I started to follow the tutorial around 8 pm, and now, two hours later, I am done. Of course, in this timeframe I did not only install Rails. I created a new Ubuntu installation from scratch (actually a VMware-image), and put Rails with Apache 2 and FCGI on it. Works great!
Now I only need to find the time to rewrite WordPress with Rails 