This is a short guide on how to get Rails 3 (which is still in beta) running on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I’m going to assume that you have some skill with the terminal. Also, since you can’t have one without the other, I’m going to walk you through through installing Ruby 1.9.2 and also sqlite3. So there it goes. First, let’s install all of the necessary tools and libraries: apt-get install curl git-cor