Well said colin. For ROR Linux environment is good. Regards, Mvsr On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 at 9:54 PM, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Jan 17, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Pierre Hollander <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I want to start using Ruby on Rails on my Windows machine. > > I am a beginner with Ruby and Rails. Do however build websites > > in HTML5 and CSS3. Where can I learn how to use this Framework ? > > What is the best platform to work on with this as a developer, I mean > what > > options do I have on my Windows machine ? > > > > Any help and direction would be appreciated... > > I've never tried this combination before, but I have heard over and over > in the nearly 10 years I have been subscribed to this list that Windows is > really difficult to use for Rails development. Any *nix is a hundred times > easier. > > If you start off with the Hartl tutorial (http://railstutorial.org) you > will end up using an online IDE in a browser, so you won't have to worry > about any of the local setup, and you can use Windows directly. But the pro > advice I have heard here time and again is to install a virtualization > scheme, like VirtualBox, and run Ubuntu there as your dev environment -- or > simply dual-boot into Ubuntu or another Linux. > > I am not saying it is impossible to develop directly in Windows, one of my > co-workers does quite successfully. But getting it to work at all was weeks > of pain and struggle, and when it goes badly, there is nearly nobody to > help him figure out what is wrong, since his dev environment is so custom. > > Walter > > > > > -- > > 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/4c75325d-7d3a-42ff-8655-541684655911%40googlegroups.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/CE8A4F9C-AB57-4152-8E41-4C596FF61239%40wdstudio.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/CAHbr1dZaaqYR-js7JHD85_vPGr7zMDALTZwgJfAR3-bKTeA9dQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
