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Agile Web Development with Rails 5, 1st Edition
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Agile Web Development with Rails 5, 1st Edition

by Sam Ruby
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
12h 21m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Installing on Linux

Start with your platform’s native package-management system, be it apt-get, dpkg, portage, rpm, rug, synaptic, up2date, or yum.

The first step is to install the necessary dependencies. The following instructions are for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus); if you’re on a different operating system, you may need to adjust both the command and the package names.

Run this command:

 $ ​​sudo​​ ​​apt-get​​ ​​install​​ ​​apache2​​ ​​curl​​ ​​git​​ ​​libmysqlclient-dev​​ ​​mysql-server​​ ​​nodejs

You’re prompted for a root password for your MySQL server. If you leave it blank, you’ll be prompted multiple times. If you specify a password, you need to use that password when you create a database in Iteration K1.

Next, you need to ...

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