woah...
EDIT 23/9/14: this is a post from my old blog which ran ruby on rails - this version is running on nodejs.
... I actually managed to set up ruby on rails...
my attempts last night were fruitless, but it seems like I got it together today - especially since I paid attention to the ever changing environment variables when using screen - somebody should really add that part to the RoR tutorials!
Anyway... time to celebrate!
EDIT: now let's see which archived posts I can already publish ...
EDIT2: here are some snippets from the web which helped me getting obtvse running:
the excellent railsguide:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
installing libyaml:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9434002/how-to-solve-ruby-installation-is-missing-psych-error
manually installing gems:
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3
Fixing an issue with environment variables
http://grigio.org/how_install_rails_3_0_beta_ubuntu_linux_step_step
installing therubyracer gem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9057475/rake-dbcreate-could-not-find-a-javascript-runtime
setting up rails + thin + nginx:
http://kvz.io/blog/2010/09/21/ruby-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-lucid/
and of course obtvse itself: