[Note] I installed the fedora18 using live fedora18 liveCD
first login using ‘ su ‘.
if gcc compiler is missing, install gcc first ‘yum install gcc’
yum install ruby
yum -y install rubygems
yum install ruby-devel
yum install irb
yum install ri
yum install rdoc
while rubyonrails installation if you get ‘javascript runtime environment ‘ message. when i googled someone adviced me to nodejs. nodejs requires ‘gcc-c++’ , so run – ‘ yum install gcc-c++ ‘ first then continue next step
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.13/node-v0.10.13.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.10.13.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.13
./configure
make
make install
exit su login run ‘ exit ‘, continue installing rubygems with normal user account
gem install sqlite3 -v ‘1.3.7’
gem install sqlite3
gem uninstall sqlite3 -a -x -I
gem install rdoc
gem install rdoc-data
gem install rails
rails server
thomas 