Raspberry Pi, Arch Linux and Ruby

January 15, 2014

Setup

After you follow the other guides and create the image boot up and resize the partition. Make sure to run pacman -Syu to uprade everything.

Install Sudo

 pacman -S sudo

#To give your regular user permission to use sudo, you need to edit the configuration file using visudo:
EDITOR=nano visudo

#Locate the section marked as:
##
## User privilege specification
##
#and uncomment the line below to say
 %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

#Save and exit.

Wifi

Nothing beats the Arch Linux Wiki its packed with useful information about how to configure everything. For wifi i used Netcfg

Ruby

see the docs

# To install ruby run
pacman -S ruby

# add this to your PATH variable
PATH="`ruby -e 'print Gem.user_dir'`/bin:$PATH"

# for bundle to work correctly
export GEM_HOME=$(ruby -e 'print Gem.user_dir')