02 March 2009

Installing Merb, DataMapper and Postgres on Ubuntu

This isn’t particularly difficult, but if you’re not familiar with Postgres on Ubuntu it could take you ten minutes to work it out:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.2 postgresql-server-dev-8.2 -y
$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev -y
$ sudo gem install merb do_postgres

The merb gem depends on the do_sqlite3 DataMapper database driver, so we need the libsqlite3-dev package in order to compile it. You can remove it afterwards if you like.