Installing on Ubuntu

It is recommended to only use the Ubuntu package management system to get a basic Ruby environment. Then you will use gem to install all your ruby packages.

So to get started, you will need to install these Ubuntu packages:

$ sudo aptitude install ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rubygems

You will also need to install the development package of your database client library, for example in the case of sqlite3:
$ sudo aptitude install libsqlite3-dev

You can now install Rails and Radiant using the gem command:

$ sudo gem install rails radiant

You will also need to install the Ruby wrapper for your database client library, for example:

$ sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby

Once radiant has been installed successfully, you need to add the directory containing the radiant command to your PATH. If you’re using Bash, you can add a line like this to your .bashrc file:

export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/radiant-0.8.0/bin