Things you need:

Ruby:    ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22) [i386-mingw32]
Rubygem: 2.0.7
Rails:   3.2.9
Perl:	   perl 5, version 16

1.  install mysql server 5.5
    sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5

2.  install ruby 1.9
    sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.1-dev

3.  Install jre
    sudo apt-get install default-jre

4.  install git
    sudo apt-get install git

5.  download and run solr
    mkdir solr
    git clone https://github.com/BibAlex/bhl_rails_solr.git solr
    cd solr/example
    java -jar start.jar
    make sure localhost:8988/solr is up and running

6.  download and run solr_test
    mkdir solr_test
    git clone https://github.com/BibAlex/bhl_solr_test.git solr_test
    cd solr_test/example
    java -jar start;jar
    make sure localhost:8989solr is up and running

7.  install rubygems
    cd /opt/
    sudo mkdir rubygems
    cd rubygems
    sudo wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-2.1.7.zip
    sudo unzip rubygems-2.1.7.zip 
    cd rubygems-2.1.7/
    sudo ruby setup.rb #gem -v should now be 2.1.7
    sudo gem update --system 2.0.7 #gem -v should now be 2.0.7

8.  install rails
    sudo gem install rails -v 3.2.13

9.  Prepare the environment
    sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
    apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev nodejs perl

10. Download the code
    mkdir bhl_rails
    git clone https://github.com/BibAlex/bhl_rails.git bhl_rails

1.  bundle install
2.  copy config/database.sample.yml to config/database.yml and fix the database settings
3.  copy config/environment.sample.rb to config/environment.rb and fix some constants
4.  rake db:create:all # to create all databases if not exist 
5.  rake db:migrate; rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
6.  rake spec # to make sure all tests are green
7.  rake scenarios:load NAME=bootstrap # this scenario will fill the DB with 100 books with only BIBIDs
8.  rake dar:update_all_metadata # this will download all metadata for books from DAR
9.  rake bhl:update_empty_locations # to update locations/countries
	  Then you should remove duplicate locations (rake bhl:remove_duplicate_locations)
10. rake dar:download_volume_content (make sure folder public/volumes exists)
11. rake dar:download_thumbs
12. perl taxon_finder/server.pl
	  rake taxon_finder:find_names
13. start solr: cd solr/examples; java -jar start.jar; check it: http://localhost:8988/solr
14. rake solr_indexer:index_all_books
15. rake eol_names:download_all_details
    rake eol_names:download_all_thumbs (make sure public/thumbs exists)
16. rake bhl:update_empty_bibtext_endnote

- Make sure folder tmp/cache exists