Building Ruby on Rails

Building Ruby on Rails

Below versions of Ruby on Rails are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

• Ubuntu 20.04 has 5.2.3
• Ubuntu 22.04 has 6.1.4.1
• Ubuntu 23.04 has 6.1.7.3
• SLES (15 SP4, 15 SP5) have 5.2.3

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Rails version 7.0.7 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.6, 8.8, 9.0, 9.2)
• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP4, 15 SP5)
• Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.04)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Step 1: Install Ruby on Rails

1.1) Install build dependencies

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9)

  sudo yum install -y wget patch make gcc gcc-c++ npm curl libyaml-devel
  

• Install SQLite 3.8 (Only for RHEL 7.x)

  wget https://www.sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-autoconf-3280000.tar.gz
  tar zxvf sqlite-autoconf-3280000.tar.gz
  cd sqlite-autoconf-3280000
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  sqlite3 --version

• RHEL (8.6, 8.8)

  sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
  sudo yum install -y zlib-devel zlib make gcc wget which patch gcc-c++ npm sqlite-devel curl libyaml-devel
  

• RHEL (9.0, 9.2)

  sudo yum install -y rpmdevtools
  sudo yum install -y zlib-devel zlib make gcc wget which patch gcc-c++ npm sqlite-devel curl ruby ruby-devel libyaml-devel
  

• SLES 12 SP5

  sudo zypper install -y bison flex libopenssl-devel libyaml-devel libffi48-devel readline-devel zlib-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel gcc make wget shared-mime-info tar  gcc-c++ libxslt-devel npm14 timezone curl
  

• SLES 15 SP4

  sudo zypper install -y wget gcc zlib-devel gawk make patch tar gzip shared-mime-info sqlite-devel gcc-c++ libxslt-devel npm16 curl
  

• SLES 15 SP5

  sudo zypper install -y wget gcc zlib-devel gawk make patch tar gzip shared-mime-info sqlite-devel gcc-c++ libxslt-devel npm18 curl
  

• Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.04)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y wget ruby ruby-dev curl patch make gcc zlib1g-dev build-essential libsqlite3-dev npm tzdata pkg-config ruby-nokogiri git libyaml-dev
  

1.2) Build Ruby (For RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.6, 8.8) , SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP4, 15 SP5) )

• Building Ruby

1.3) Correct the gem environment for a standard user

export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem/ruby
export PATH=$HOME/.gem/ruby/bin:$PATH

1.4) Enable devtoolset-7 for GCC7 (Only for RHEL 7.x)

source /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/enable

1.5) Install Ruby on Rails via gem

gem install rake                         		# For Ubuntu
gem install rails -v 7.0.7               		# For All except SLES 15.x
gem install rails -v 7.0.7 -- --use-system-libraries	#For SLES 15.x

1.6) Ruby on Rails is now installed. Verify version with command rails -v

• (Output)

  Rails 7.0.7

Step 2: Verification

• Install NodeJS

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT
  wget  https://nodejs.org/download/release/v16.3.0/node-v16.3.0-linux-s390x.tar.gz
  tar xzf node-v16.3.0-linux-s390x.tar.gz
  export PATH=$SOURCE_ROOT/node-v16.3.0-linux-s390x/bin:$PATH
  node -v

• Install required dependencies

  gem install bundler 
  npm install -g yarn

• Create a new Rails application and start the web server

  mkdir myapp
  cd myapp
  echo "source 'https://rubygems.org'" > Gemfile
  echo "gem 'rails', '7.0.7'" >> Gemfile
  gem install racc -v '1.6.2'  #For Ubuntu 23.04 only
  bundle install
  bundle exec rails new . --force --skip-bundle
  bundle install
  bin/rails server &

  Note: Use -b to bind Rails to the specified IP. By default, it is localhost.

• After starting Rails server, go to http://localhost:3000

  curl http://127.0.0.1:3000

References:

• http://rubyonrails.org/
• https://github.com/rails/rails#getting-started