Hi Michael, I'm kind of in the same situation as Fai. I'm a .NET developer doing ASP.NET. But currently I started doing RoR development. For that purpose I bought a Mac. I understood that lot's of RoR use Textmate ( http://macromates.com/ ) as IDE. Texmate is only available for Mac. Another great editor is SublimeText 2 ( http://www.sublimetext.com/2 ). SublimeText2 is available for Mac and PC. I also heard a lot of praise about RubyMine by JetBrains ( http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/)
But the thing I like about RoR is just that it's less tool dependent like .NET development which relies heavily on Visual Studio and Sql Server. One can develop a Rails app by just using the terminal and an editor. hope this helps, Anthony Op maandag 18 maart 2013 20:46:31 UTC+1 schreef Michael Armistead het volgende: > > 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/-/1Lxgoe1wWYIJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
