WSL Distro Ruby'n'Rails

This is a WSL Distro for Ruby'n'Rails (Ruby and RubyOnRails) development. It is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and includes the following tools:

• asdf
• Ruby
• NodeJS
• RubyOnRails

Copy & Paste setup

# Install WSL2
wsl --install
# Download the WSL-Distro Tarball
curl "https://github.com/salzig/wsl-distro-rubynrails/releases/download/v1.3.0/wsl-distro-rubynrails.tar" -OutFile wsl-distro-rubynrails.tar
# Import Tarball as WSL-Distro
wsl --import RubynRails .\rubynrails wsl-distro-rubynrails.tar
# Cleanup temporary file
Remove-Item "wsl-distro-rubynrails.tar"

Default user is me with a password of love, which you need to run commands as root (using sudo).

Todos

• Anything missing?

Helpful Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles

• WSL2 Installation Guide
• Import any Linux distribution to use with WSL