Hello,
Thanks for your feedback. I guess I will have to share with you the
problem I am having with Linux installations too. Anyway, I am taking a course
on Lynda.com for learning and the instructor doesn’t go into Linux for some
reason. He discusses Ruby on Rails for Mac and Windows. There is a course
also on Ruby which ran fine on Windows.
I have used various PHP frameworks, like Zend, Cakephp, Synphony.
Getting back to the course, unfortunately, he doesn’t cover any IDE for
doing development with Ruby On Rails. That’s why I was looking for suggestions
for a development tool, IDE, that is free. Aptana, Netbeans, Eclipse, RadRails?
I have VirtualBox and can use that. However, first I want to say that
I would like to be able to follow the course material that does use Windows
(also Mac OS X, which I don’t have). Again, strangely as it seems, it is the
hardest, most frustrating effort to get started with Ruby on Rails among all
the language stacks (other stacks, I guess were the php stacks), and languages
I’ve used. On Windows, I ran into problems with both installing the rails
project on my xampp area and using the WebBrick server. Then I tried using
Linux Ubuntu Server 12.04 and ran into problems when I tried various online
tutorials for how to install and get up and running with Ruby on Rails for
Linux Ubuntu server. Someone on this list did send me a link to yet another
tutorial for Linux.
I suppose I am not so great at using terminal command line apps (like
Putty for windows) as the text often flies by and it’s hard to read. Plus, I’m
not clear how to copy the text when it displays errors during a process to be
able to share them on a list and ask what is going wrong?
It’s not a matter of not understanding the concept of the framework,
it’s the fact that it isn’t working in any environment, using an IDE or no IDE,
or etc.
This is far and above the most difficult language and framework that
I’ve ever encountered. I’ve never before spent day after day just to get a
language or language stack setup and to have a application created and to be
able to go to a website and see it. There are many conceptual things I need to
learn about the php language stacks but at least in the first sitting, within a
couple hours if not much, much sooner, I had an MVC application installed and I
could browse to it.
thanks,
Bruce
From: Dheeraj Kumar
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Rails] Help getting started: Newbie: Windows and Rails
Hi Bruce,
I can understand the problems you're going through, as I've faced them myself.
They stem from some misconceptions about the language & the framework.
Getting started with rails is probably the easiest thing to do out of all the
language stacks available. If you're using OSX or Linux, use
https://github.com/joshfng/railsready on a fresh install of your OS, and you're
set.
Remember that developing rails on Windows is not that easy, since Ruby runs
best on *nix environments like OSX or Linux. On Windows, Ruby runs on an
emulation layer like Cygwin, which should probably work 90% of the time, but
it's largely unsupported by the rails community.
Dheeraj Kumar
On Monday 27 August 2012 at 8:37 PM, Bruce Whealton wrote:
Hello all,
For some reason, Ruby on Rails is one of the hardest programming
languages that I’ve ever tried to get up and running with it. I have used
python, perl, php, java, javascript, etc.
Can someone recommend a good IDE that is free – at this point I need that –
Please. I have both RadRails, which often gets described as an Eclipse Plugin
– maybe I should instead just start with Eclipse and install
Ruby on Rails for Eclipse. I also have NetBeans. Can someone recommend an
IDE for Windows. (and separately if it works in Linux).
I took a course on Lynda.com on Ruby and then on Ruby on Rails and got stuck
at the part where I create the first app and then try the Webbrick server.
I can work with Ruby. I’d now like to work with Ruby on Rails.
I do have a dedicated server and I can install gems from the cpanel.
I don’t know how that is at learning Rails. For example, are there ways to
create a ruby on rails application from the cpanel?
While I am trying to get started with Linux, I would like to be able
to do this in Windows. The course I am taking is using Windows or Mac. I
don’t have a mac yet.
Thanks,
Bruce
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