I updated my laptop to Ubuntu 6.10 Beta (Edgy Eft) and it’s working great. So far I’ve had less problems than the beta of Dapper, but it has only been two day. My first experience off the tested path of synaptic packages is ruby on rails. Edgy comes with a rails package, but like Dapper, no gems. So here is the install of gems, and the rails from withing gems, on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft.

# sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev irb rdoc
# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
# tar xvfz rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
# cd rubygems-0.9.0
# sudo ruby setup.rb
# sudo gem install rails

I did get an rdoc error, but everything else installed fine, so I ignored it and continued on. This error is fixed by adding rdoc to the apt-get command above. It is here for historical purposes, and perhaps will help someone.

/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — rdoc/rdoc (LoadError)

Other Notes:

• you’ll need to ‘apt-get install build-essential’ before you can ‘gem install mongrel’
• better documentation can be found at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntu

Lifehacker has a primer on Netcat, one useful utility which I don’t use nearly enough. Most stuff shown can be done with SSH, nmap, and telnet, but the author makes the point that netcat is on everything. So if you’re ever stuck without SSH, Netcat will be there. And if you haven’t setup passwordless logins for SSH yet, it’ll be quicker for many tasks than having to transfer keys around beforehand.