Installing Sproutcore (stable and dev) on Linux

This is just a note-to-self kind of post. Official instruction, available here, do not explain how to setup the development version (which currently is 1.7.1.beta).

This is the full list of command (ran and tested on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04), just need to type the occasional yes.

	#
	# Use these commands to install sproutcore official (and development version)
	# on Ubuntu linux
	#
	# Tested on Lucid Lynx provisioned by vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/)
	#
	sudo apt-get install curl
	bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
	source /home/vagrant/.rvm/scripts/rvm
	source /home/vagrant/.profile
	rvm install 1.9.2
	echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile
	rvm use 1.9.2
	rvm default 1.9.2
	. ~/.bash_profile
	ruby -v
	sudo apt-get install g++
	#
	# In some cases (happened to me on ubuntu 11) ruby/sproutcore commands give an error
	# about zlib, openssl or other libraries not being found.
	# To fix it run the additional commands (documentation link: https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/packages/zlib/):
	# rvm pkg install zlib <- insert name of library here
	# rvm reinstall 1.9.2
	#
	gem install bundler
	gem install sproutcore
	#
	# Next steps are qrequired only if you want to develop on Sproutcore
	# and/or use the latest and greatest version from github (use at your own risk)
	#
	sudo apt-get install git-core || sudo apt-get install git
	mkdir Development
	cd Development/
	git clone https://github.com/sproutcore/abbot.git
	sc-init MyProject
	cd my_project/
	cat > Gemfile <<EOF
	source "http://rubygems.org"
	gem "sproutcore", :path => "../abbot/"
	EOF
	bundle install --binstubs
	mkdir frameworks
	cd frameworks
	git clone https://github.com/sproutcore/sproutcore.git
	cd ..
	bundle exec sc-server

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For those cases when bundle fails (happened to me) to create the bin directory with the beta version of sc-* tools just type the longer variant:

bundle exec sc-server