Building a Linux Server for Ruby on Rails Development
This course covers how to build a server or virtual server for Ruby on Rails Development using Fedora, Ubuntu, or CentOS Linux.
What you'll learn
Build a server or virtual server for Ruby on Rails Development. In this course, we will use Fedora, Ubuntu, or CentOS Linux to set up a server. Virtual Box will be used to create virtual servers. We will install and configure SSHD, vsftpd, Apache, MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL. We will install multiple versions of Ruby using RVM, and we will install Ruby on Rails 4.1. We will then build a simple project to test our server, and then create a clone image that can be used for future projects. If you follow along, at the end you will have a server ready for Ruby on Rails development.
Table of contents
- Introduction 0m
- Virtual Box Demonstration 0m
- Download Virtual Box for Windows 1m
- Download Virtual Box for Macintosh 2m
- Using Virtual Box 3m
- The Mouse and Virtual Box 1m
- Cloning a Server 1m
- Snapshots of a Server 1m
- Creating a Virtual Server 2m
- Virtual Server Networking Options 1m
- Virtual Server Port Forwarding 3m
- Startup Disk 1m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Downloading Fedora 1m
- Create a Fedora Virtual Server 2m
- Set the Startup Disk 1m
- Networking 2m
- Static Addresses 1m
- Install Linux 5m
- Installation Complete - Reboot 1m
- Problems and Solutions 0m
- Problems - Fedora Boots Into the Installer 1m
- Problems - Fedora Boots Into X Windows 4m
- Problems - Mouse Trapped 1m
- Post Installation 0m
- Turn off SELINUX 1m
- Test Networking 3m
- Use 'Yum' to Install the 'Lynx' Web Browser 2m
- Use 'Yum' to Install the 'Joe' Editor 2m
- Backup 1m
- Summary 0m
- Introduction 0m
- What Is Ubuntu? 1m
- Downloading Ubuntu 1m
- Create a Blank Virtual Server 2m
- Set the Startup Disk 1m
- Networking Options 4m
- Installing Ubuntu 7m
- Testing Our Linux Installation 2m
- Testing Networking 2m
- Networking Problems and Solutions 1m
- Static Addresses Configuration 3m
- Backup 1m
- Summary 0m
About the author
Jim Pickrell teaches at Los Angeles City College and is president of Brand X Internet, a local internet service in Santa Monica. He studied at the University of Washington, UCLA, and the Technical University of Munich. He programs in C, C++, Ruby on Rails, Objective C, Perl, Fortran, Java, Javascript, and Assembler. Clients over the years include: Blue Origin, AMI/Stark Aerospace, the City of Santa Monica, the Directors Guild of America and numerous others. He is currently working o... more