On 19 April 2014 10:24, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 April 2014 10:12, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 19 April 2014 00:36, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've been trying to install ruby on rails for the past 4 days. No tutorial >>> has helped. I even decided to switch from Windows to Ubuntu (both 12 and 14) >>> to see if that would help. >>> Still can't get it installed. >>> >>> I am going to try to switch to Mac, but I have a bad feeling about it too. >>> It is pretty demoralizing when you try to do this for 4 days straight. I >>> have had very little sleep because >>> I really wanted to get started. >>> >>> I asked for help on Reddit. I got several responses but those didn't work >>> either. I searched for help on youtube. That didn't help at all. >>> >>> I just signed up for a Rails forum. I am starting to think that it might not >>> be possible to install anymore in 2014. Is Ruby on Rails still a thing?? >> >> RoR is going strong. >> It should be no great problem to install, though it can be confusing >> if you don't get it right. I recommend using a ruby manger, I use RVM >> though I believe others prefer rbenv. If you want to try with rvm >> then in a terminal first install curl >> sudo apt-get install curl >> then >> \curl -k -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails > > I should have said that is for Ubuntu (I am just checking it on 14.04 > to make sure it still works, looking good so far). Don't know about > Mac, though many Rails developers use them, Windows is generally not > recommended for Rails.
One more thing, after the install above edit the file .bashrc, which you can do by running gedit ~/.bashrc and add a line on the end containing [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" then close any open terminal windows, re-open and you should be good to go. Colin > > Colin -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLt7bX1DPxzwiYTUa4ksG4rV%3DZ%2B74aQGzKvtFeQMY7z_Lg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
