Merge pull request #14692 from CartoDB/guide-upgrade-nodejs-ruby

Updating install guide due to Node.js & Ruby version upgrades

NEWS.md

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Development
 cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/lib/sql
 sudo make install
 ```
+- Updating installation guide due to Node.js & Ruby version upgrades [#14692](https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/pull/14692)
 
 ### Features
 * Added a rake task to generate finer grain LDS metrics reports (user/day granularity) [#14671](https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/pull/14671)

doc/manual/source/install.rst

@@ -169,31 +169,25 @@ Redis
 Node.js
 -------
 
-Node.js is required by different parts of the stack. The more significant are the Maps and SQL APIs. It's also used to install and execute some dependencies of Builder.
-
-
-* Add the PPA
-
-  .. code-block:: bash
+.. note::
+    CARTO requires Node.js 10+ and npm 6+.
 
-    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cartodb/nodejs && sudo apt-get update
+Node.js is required by different parts of the stack. The more significant are the Maps and SQL APIs. It's also used to install and execute some dependencies of Builder.
 
 * Install Node.js
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
-    sudo apt-get install nodejs
+    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
+    sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
 
-  Note this should install both Node.js 6.9.2 and npm 3.10.9. You can verify the installation went as expected with:
+  Note this should install both Node.js 10.x and npm 6.x. You can verify the installation went as expected with:
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
-    nodejs -v
+    node -v
     npm -v
 
-.. warning::
-      CARTO uses Node.js v6.9.2 and npm 3.10.9. You must use these precise versions to avoid problems.
-
 We will also install some development libraries that will be necessary to build some Node.js modules:
 
   .. code-block:: bash
@@ -241,17 +235,11 @@ MAPS API
     git clone git://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb.git
     cd Windshaft-cartodb
 
-* Maps API dependencies are managed using yarn. Install it:
-
-  .. code-block:: bash
-
-    sudo npm install -g yarn@0.27.5
-
 * Install yarn dependencies
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
-    yarn install
+    npm install
 
 * Create configuration. The name of the filename of the configuration must be the same than the environment you are going to use to start the service. Let's assume it's development.
 
@@ -272,7 +260,7 @@ Ruby
 ----
 
 .. note::
-  CARTO requires exactly Ruby 2.2.x. Older or newer versions won't work.
+  CARTO requires exactly Ruby 2.4.x. Older or newer versions won't work.
 
 * Add brightbox ruby repositories
 
@@ -280,11 +268,11 @@ Ruby
 
     sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng && sudo apt-get update
 
-* Install ruby 2.2
+* Install ruby 2.4
 
   .. code-block:: bash
 
-    sudo apt-get install ruby2.2 ruby2.2-dev
+    sudo apt-get install ruby2.4 ruby2.4-dev
 
 * Install bundler. Bundler is an app used to manage ruby dependencies. It is needed by CARTO Builder