I am using a Mac so I do not have you problems. Is you laptop certified for a specific distro of Linux. Do you know that Dell and may be HP have laptops certified for Ubuntu and Redhat? I personally would try to use Linux, bash, git, apt-get, more performance. I would try to fix Linux issues. You could develop in Windows, Ruby works on it. Vagrant is good, you can just run 'ssh vagrant' and call tests and guard from you windows shell. The problem is that Windows shell is rubbish and you have to use putty because Windows does not have ssh. I would just avoid to use Windows entirely, it is too limiting. I would try to fix LInux issues on the laptop or buy another laptop, seriously.
On Monday, 18 March 2013 19:46:31 UTC, Michael Armistead wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been learning Rails for several weeks now. I am working through > Michael Hartl's tutorial and other various things. My question is basically > regarding what type of environment to do my development in. First, some > background: > > I have used different linux distros on and off throughout the years, so it > was easy and familiar for me to set up my desktop computer with Mint and > get rvm/rails etc installed and working correctly. No issues there. > > However, I went out and bought a laptop this last weekend; I have never > installed any linux variant on a laptop, so when I did it was startling to > find out how incredibly terrible the battery life / power management > functions were. I was getting ~2 hours of life just doing simple web > browsing. After spending an afternoon tweaking everything (using powertop, > thinkfan etc), I was able to increase that marginally. > > Then, I had someone recommend that I use win7 as my host OS, and then use > a VM for rails development. While doing some research, I came across > Vagrant. I got it set up and installed using one of the boxes made for > rails development, however I have not started using it yet. I guess the > idea is still quite fresh regarding workflow. If I was using a standard VM > with ubuntu or whatever, I would boot it up and do my work inside just as > if it was the host OS. When it comes to Vagrant, I am a little more > confused. > > Am I supposed to start my headless vagrant box, start all my services / > rails server etc inside, but then have Sublime Text 2 on my host OS - and > work out of the shared directory while just performing tests inside of the > VM? > > I use Guard / Spork on my desktop - how do I set this up within Vagrant? I > have read that some people have issues with it. > > Am I going to run into any problems down the line running windows as my OS > for coding / the VM for testing and server? > > Well, I am rambling. This whole idea is just very fresh for me, so I am > just looking for any feedback possible. I want to get my development > environment set up as fast (but as stable) as possible, so I can get back > to learning more rails! > > Thanks everyone, > Michael > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/sV9r7CExavYJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
