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A while back I wrote a HowTo for installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu's Dapper Drake edition. Well, some 6 months later Dapper is still the LTS release but many rails developers are longing to move on to Edgy Eft. While a simple apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade will take care of that for most people, it doesn't necessarily help those installing on Edgy Eft from scratch. That being said, the previous HowTo is still accurate. Still, I'm reposting so that people can post their experiences and recommendations (comments are disabled after 20 days to keep spam in check) below. Also, I've cleaned up a few things and removed some older package requirements. Note that this tutorial assumes you did not choose LAMP or DNS server during your install. Probably no harm if you did except we won't be using Apache to run Rails.. we'll be using Lighttpd.