I know how frustrating this part can be. I've been helping out with some Railsbridge workshops, and the tutorial they have for the "Installfest" seems pretty solid amongst people with no experience installing or writing software.
http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/ On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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/CAHUC_t-HHy4O3NBPjKY5c4mLJ%3Do-MSv1VaZfcFzsJk_J_8iWfA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
