Just a short rundown on how to use Ubuntu 8.1 Desktop as the main development machine.

1. apt-get autoremove
2. Click ‘install VMware Tools’ in menu.
3. Copy Tools in personal working directory and tar xvfz.
4. Enter directory and start sudo ./vmware-install.pl
5. sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libpq-dev apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-prefork-dev libreadline5-dev git-core pgadmin3 postgresql
6. wget the latest ruby: http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/download.html
7. sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/ /opt/ruby-enterprise
8. sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/gem /usr/bin/gem
9. sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby
10. sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/rake /usr/bin/rake
11. sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/irb /usr/bin/irb
12. sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/rails /usr/bin/rails
13. sudo /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
14. And now follow this post: Mac OS X – ideal development platform – VMware, Ruby on Rails & Ubuntu