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Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by steveklabnik »

dangrossman wrote: post #27
jules wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rails is very easy to set up. Easier than any other software for programmers I've used. 1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done). 2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`

You had a good experience. Lots of people don't. Getting the environment set up took me hours, and I'm a programmer. First I installed Ruby with my distro's package manager. Then I followed the instructions in the book and installed gem from the RubyGems website. Uhoh, not supposed to do that anymore, Ruby comes with a different version of gem. The new Rails website tells me I need a different version of Ruby, the on…

Let me guess.... debian?

Everywhere else it's totally sane.

Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by [deleted] »

dangrossman wrote: post #27
jules wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rails is very easy to set up. Easier than any other software for programmers I've used. 1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done). 2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`

You had a good experience. Lots of people don't. Getting the environment set up took me hours, and I'm a programmer. First I installed Ruby with my distro's package manager. Then I followed the instructions in the book and installed gem from the RubyGems website. Uhoh, not supposed to do that anymore, Ruby comes with a different version of gem. The new Rails website tells me I need a different version of Ruby, the on…

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Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by patrickaljord »

obiefernandez wrote: post #14

This feels like an important development for Windows users that want to try Rails. (Assuming it works on IE)

The editor is skywriter which is based on canvas, so it doesn't work on IEhttps://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/

Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by trevorturk »

jules wrote: post #15
trevorturk wrote: post #2

This is a wonderful idea. Every time I try to get someone started with Rails, I sent them to the Rails Guides and warn them that "getting Rails up and running in the hardest part." Being able to have someone jump straight into videos and interactive prompts from their browser is going to be so much better...

Rails is very easy to set up. Easier than any other software for programmers I've used. 1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done). 2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`

I've helped a number of people "get started with Rails" over the years, and I've had to help every single one of them get their environment set up properly.

I think there's tremendous value in this kind of site. If someone comes up to you and says "how can I get started with Rails?" now you can just point them to this site and tell them to get in touch when they've finished the tutorials. Then you can help them set up their environment properly ;)

Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by olalonde »

jules wrote: post #15
trevorturk wrote: post #2

This is a wonderful idea. Every time I try to get someone started with Rails, I sent them to the Rails Guides and warn them that "getting Rails up and running in the hardest part." Being able to have someone jump straight into videos and interactive prompts from their browser is going to be so much better...

Rails is very easy to set up. Easier than any other software for programmers I've used. 1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done). 2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`

I just installed RoR on a clean Ubuntu install and it wasn't easy at all.

First, I had to install rvm (Rails wouldn't install with Ubuntu's Ruby packages) which took some time to figure out. Then I tried installing Rails and got some problem related to sqlite3. I then figured out that I had to install the sqlite3-ruby gem. Of course it didn't work. I found out I had to install the libsqlite3-dev package.

The whole process took a good 30-60min.

Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by sp4rki »

steveklabnik wrote: post #31
dangrossman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You had a good experience. Lots of people don't. Getting the environment set up took me hours, and I'm a programmer. First I installed Ruby with my distro's package manager. Then I followed the instructions in the book and installed gem from the RubyGems website. Uhoh, not supposed to do that anymore, Ruby comes with a different version of gem. The new Rails website tells me I need a different version of Ruby, the on…

Let me guess.... debian? Everywhere else it's totally sane.

Ironically enough, I've never ever had any problems with setting up a rails stack in Debian. Not my cup of tea distro, but some people I work with swear by it. I guess it has to do with all the stuff I do and preset when creating an image to base servers of.

Nevertheless, I've found Ruby and Rails easy to install in any machine I've tried them in (A LOT), and I guess that for less Unix inclined users it might get a bit complicated along the way.

Re: Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

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Post by dam5s »

bjonathan wrote: post #20
jules wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rails is very easy to set up. Easier than any other software for programmers I've used. 1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done). 2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`

I guess you never really tried to install a full dev environment for Rails on Windows...

Just run a virtual machine with Linux on it. It will be much faster, and way more convenient.
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