This is my first post and I hope it's appropriate for the site. My son admires HN and recommended I ask for help here. I'm an "old" CS guy (graduated back in the 80's) and have NOT kept my skills up-to-date as my career led me from development to mostly sysad stuff. So for the last few years, I've had this web site idea and spent the last year designing it while trying to learn Ruby on Rails (using Mark Hartl's tutorial). Setting up a Linux VDI and getting the environment right is driving me crazy. It's always one problem after another. I'm normally a very persistant guy but Hartl's recommended problem solving algorithm (google it) doesn't always work. I'm at the point where I'll do anything just to get this project off the ground. Any ideas or suggestions? I'd pay someone to help me but I don't know where to find such a person.
Help with Rails?
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#3Could you describe the problems you are facing in more detail?
I guess you would not have to pay to get directions. One-on-one help might need payment.
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#4Maybe stackoverflow or serverfault could help if you are having specific issues with the code or the server setup?
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#5I stumbled across thinkful recently: http://www.thinkful.com and I think having a mentor while learning to code (especially web dev) is really helpful.
PS: I have not used thinkful before.
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#6Michael is very responsive to questions although you should first use his debugging tips. He'll usually fix your problem with one line of code.
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/help
If you don't find your answer from either the debugging tips or a Google search, try writing your question on StackOverflow. Most of the issues you face are probably solvable by knowing what line of your error to search for.
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#7Hey jrbeal, I've had the same problems. I taught myself ROR over the past year and I had huge issues getting it off the ground. I've been through over 20 different sets of tutorials, so I'm sure I can help out.
I also had a lot of initial difficulty setting up my environments, but I've gotten a lot better at it now.
If you'd like, send me an email benigeri@stanford.edu and I can try to help you and point you to good resources. It's a little hard to suggest anything right now since I don't have any context.
So send me an email and I'll try to help you as much as I can, pro-bono.
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#8Why do you need a Linux VDI? Test locally with the Rails server, then deploy to Heroku.
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#9My tip: DON'T USE RVM. (rbenv is a good alternative)
RVM is the nº1 source of problem in Ruby envs.
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#10jrbeal, you can try Laravel, it's a Php Framework and you can setup everything in a couple of minutes and probably develop your idea without having to deal with all those issues.