Ok, so that was the first bit out of the way, now lets move on to installing GitLab Shell, we’ll download GitLab Shell with the following commands:- cd /home/git Next, as we will be installing our RoR dependencies using Bundler, we’ll download the Bundler Gem like so: sudo gem install bundler -no-ri -no-rdoc We will now create a git user for GitLab to use, lets add the new system account like so: sudo adduser -disabled-login -gecos 'GitLab' git Now, lets confirm that we are now running version 2.0 of Ruby: ruby -version Next, by default Ubuntu 12.04 LTS comes bundled with Ruby 1.8 we need to replace this with Ruby 2.0, so lets remove the old version and then we’ll build the version 2.0 from source… (this bit can take some time, you might want to consider running the rest of the installation in a screen session incase you get an SSH idle connection timeout!) mkdir /tmp/ruby & cd /tmp/ruby Sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl git-core openssh-server redis-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev So, this is a little longer than most of my other blog posts on here so I hope you can keep up as we delve into getting the raft of dependencies installed and everything up and running! Lets get going…įrom the console of your server we need to download and install some initial packages, execute the following commands: sudo apt-get update In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to configure you’re own GitLab server specifically on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS – for those that follow my blog posts quite closely you’ll not doubt of realised by now that I do love Ubuntu Server (I prefer the debian based distros over the likes of the RedHat derivatives!) Recently I found a fantastic ‘clone’ of GitHub, it’s called GitLab and pretty much has all the features that GitHub does and like GitHub, GitLab is written in Ruby ( on Rails).

I’m the first to admit that I absolutely love writing code and applications, I’m also a huge fan of GitHub, GitHub is a fantastic tool for hosting and collaborating on public projects such as open-source projects however and although you can pay to enable you to host private Git repositories on GitHub if you have more than a few you’ll soon start paying big bucks!

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