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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…
- I can't get rubygems to work.
- You've used a Linux package manager to install Ruby haven't you? Don't, it's broken. Uninstall it and re-install from source.
Then follows a discussion about how the person with the problem doesn't want to do that, and the other people telling him fine, suit yourself.
The person with the problem continues to try to solve this problem some other way, but in the end either follows the previous recommendation, or stops messing with Ruby altogether.
Nowadays, Linux package managers offers the option of installing the "full" Ruby distribution, which is great, but I wonder why anyone would ever want to install the partial broken one. I don't even know if the "full" one works. :-/