Rails 1.2.6 under debian lenny in (almost) userspace
The problem start playing with rails is that most tutorial out there are based on rails 1.2.6 and doesn't work in rails 2 which is now the standard in debian lenny.
First install ruby and rubygem from debian packages. [...]
Then install rails 1.2.6 in a local writable directory (ex. /home/mygemstuff)
gem install rails --version=1.2.6 --include-dependencies --install-dir /home/mygemstuff
Then we have to make some adjustment to the op-system. As root we link /var/lib/gems/1.8 to out /home/mygemstuff. Then we make rails and rake executable in out path.
cd /var/lib/gems/ rmdir 1.8 ln -s /home/mygemstuff 1.8
If in your path thare is /usr/local/bin than you can simply
cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /home/mygemstuff/bin/rails ln -s /home/mygemstuff/bin/rake
now you can do rails demo and start to playing with it.
