Slightly ironic since I just got a MacBook for my new job and am trying to get it set up for Rails development.
ironic... or, just coincidental? i‧ro‧ny - Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. co‧in‧ci‧dence - A sequence of events that, although accidental, seems to have been planned or arranged.
Kickstarter: rails.app
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Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#323 step process: Step 1: Download the "Command line tools for Xcode" here https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action Step 2: Install homebrew with this command /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contribu... Step 3: gem install rails
Yah, rather then funding a project to make Rails easier to install on OSX (because it's not with the plethora information guides and bootstrap scripts), why not tackle real problems like concurrency and websockets in Rails.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#33I propose a different funding model for this project. Why not approach Rails hosting vendors like Heroku, Engine Yard, etc. to fund this project, in exchange for built-in one-click deployment to their hosting environment. Would be a win-win for the user and hosting provider.
Presumably they can consider the $10k sponsorship option if they want something like that.
Yeah, it could also be an ongoing funding partnership. My impression would be that this is something that Heroku et al would be very interested in supporting, and even developing themselves.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#34Seems like this is connected to rails 4 release:
sidebar:
"and your input will guarantee that Rails 4 is as great for beginners as it is for experienced developers."
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#35I propose a different funding model for this project. Why not approach Rails hosting vendors like Heroku, Engine Yard, etc. to fund this project, in exchange for built-in one-click deployment to their hosting environment. Would be a win-win for the user and hosting provider.
There is a slot on the donar list for larger sponsors. I like this model, because the demand from the community will encourage those sponsors to participate. It would have higher risk of return if it wasn't in this public space.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#36I used this guide: http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2010/9/23/install-rails-ruby... when getting started, which was pretty painless.
There's also a GUI for RVM called Jewelry Box which makes handling gem sets and ruby versions easy: http://unfiniti.com/software/mac/jewelrybox
I think the money would be better spent on creating a comprehensive beginners guide since the 4th edition of Agile Web Development with Rails is lacking.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#37I propose a different funding model for this project. Why not approach Rails hosting vendors like Heroku, Engine Yard, etc. to fund this project, in exchange for built-in one-click deployment to their hosting environment. Would be a win-win for the user and hosting provider.
It would also make an ideal teaching environment: getting students to learn to navigate the Rails installation is half the challenge of getting them started.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#38Setting up a vagrant script would be worth more. Portable development environment (Ubuntu running in a virtual box), cross platform support, easily configurable and duplicatable, and segregated from host machine.
You never know what kind of things people are doing on their machines, don't deal with that, use vagrant.
P.S. I'm sure a rails script exists for vagrant so he could just improve that with whatever he's going to do.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#39I'm interested in whatever Yehuda Katz comes up with, but I've been a Rails dev at a Mac shop since 2007? and I have never been too frustrated by getting Rails running. Does anyone here have specific problems? From my experience, it really has been a matter of "gem update --system; gem install rails".
As a fairly recent OSX and a fairly recent Rails user, I had no trouble learning either. That is, except for Lion and XCode 4.2/4.3, which caused me about three lost days. 'rvm get head' and 'rvm install 1.9.3-head' fixed that, though.
That's 3 days you could spend curing cancer. Tongue in cheek aside, I use to rage when I had to spend 3 days doing server admin and configuration. Along comes heroku and dotcloud and it's a godsend.
Re: Kickstarter: rails.app
#40What about on a virtual private server like at linode? Then one doesn't necessarily have to shell out for a Mac to run osx.
I would be much more interested in that.