How to install Rails on an EC2 server?

Question

I have installed Rails on my localhost, and now, I would like to install it on an Amazon EC2 server.

Answer 1

This should do it for you pretty much. It is a deployment tool writtne specifically for EC2 - and its called EC2 on rails.

http://ec2onrails.rubyforge.org/

Answer 2

Ssh into your ec2 instance and run:

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full
sudo gem install rails

Done.