Using octopress on WebFaction

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I'm trying to install Octopress on Webfaction following this site.

The first step is installing ruby/rvm.

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
rvm install 1.9.3
rvm use 1.9.3
rvm ruby gems latest

However, I got requested to give root id, and I couldn't proceed.

 Installing required packages: libyaml-devel, libffi-devel prosseek password required

Checking the ruby that I use is 1.9.4

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p448 (2013-06-27 revision 41675) [i386-linux]

Trying to install bundler, but I got error to use ruby 1.8.

gem install bundler
WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and
      /usr/local/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /home/prosseek/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
      gem executables will not run.
ERROR:  Error installing bundler:
    bundler requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.6

Trying to use gem 1.9 with `alias gem='/usr/local/bin/gem1.9', I got this error.

Fetching: bundler-1.5.2.gem (100%)
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
    You don't have write permissions into the /usr/local/lib/ruby19/ruby/gems/1.9.1 directory.

How can I use Octopress on WebFaction?

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I was new to Octopress, so I asked the wrong question, but the answer was correct in terms of installing ruby. The thing was that I use my mac for editing blogs in Octopress, so the version in web faction doesn't matter. I just set the server address and use rake generate and rake deploy to publish the public directory into WebFaction.

In short, you don't need any ruby installation for using Octopress.

Accepted Answer

Change the Setup & Installation section of the guide to:

# Step 1.  Install RVM and Ruby *1.9.3*  
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash
source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm autolibs disable
rvm requirements
rvm install 1.9.3

# set it as your default and current ruby:
rvm --default use 1.9.3
rvm use 1.9.3

# and ensure that it's right:
ruby --version    # should show ruby 1.9.3p484

# Step 2. Clone octopress source
git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
cd octopress

# Step 3. Dependency 
gem install bundler
bundle install
rake install

# rake is like make for Ruby
rake generate

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