On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 August 2015 at 00:16, Liam O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Okay so I want to make some rails apps, simple blogs and stuff to learn > how to make websites etc. > > But I hear Windows is hell for rails to work on. > > Should I move my desktop over to Ubuntu or some other Linux distribution? > > Yes, in my opinion. > I started using Ubuntu, initially because I wanted to use Rails, but > very soon realised how great it is to feel in control of one's machine > again and now only very rarely use Windows. You can set your machine > up to dual boot Win/Ubuntu or you could run Ubuntu in a virtual > machine under windows (VMWare or VirtualBox for example). > I recommend using rvm to install ruby/rails in Ubuntu, others prefer rbenv. > > > Also what is a good tool to start developing rails? I'm only a beginner. > > Have a look at the tutorial at railstutorial.org, which is free to use > online. In fact don't just have a look at it, work right through it, > including doing the exercises. That will show you the basics of > rails. > > Colin >
To second Colin, I have just acquired in the past 2 months a Toshiba Kirabook, which is my first windows machine since Win98. It was a snap to load on VirtualBox and then I installed Linux Mint as a full desktop on VirtualBox. In addition, I've been using Macs for years with VirtualBox + Vagrant to install a linux server based upon Ubuntu Server or Debian which is the preferred environment for the work projects I'm on. I use a local editor (Emacs in my case) and all tests and such run on the virtual machine. -- 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_t8B_CJ%2Bc5b7jdPn%3DfUMi3GCU32UN%2Ba%2BVFW8vw-7tU22uw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
