Pierre Hollander <[email protected]> writes: > Hi,
Welcome, Pierre, > I want to start using Ruby on Rails on my Windows machine. The advice I give my students who only have a Windows machine to learn with is: a) use a cloud-based development environment, such as cloud9 (https://c9.io), nitrous (https://nitrous.io), koding.com (https://koding.com). b) install VirtualBox and Vagrant with a Linux-based virtual environment. Of these, (a) is the quickest way to get up to the point of starting to learn Rails itself. Time and time again, people trying to use windows as a rails development environment come up with issues and road blocks. I appreciate that most people cannot plunk down $1-2000 for a mac to develop on when they already have a machine. But as things in the Ruby and Rails world progress, and this is also true in working with Node and JavaScript on the server, developers who use Windows, will maintain libraries and frameworks that work across both Windows and Unix-based platforms become fewer and fewer. So do yourself a solid and get a Linux-based platform available for yourself, through one of the options above. > 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 ? Colin's already provided the best source for beginners to learning Rails, railstutorial.com. (I'm pretty sure he's got that paragraph on a hot-key.) Hartl's recommendation is for Cloud9 as well. > What is the best platform to work on with this as a developer, I mean what > options do I have on my Windows machine ? The two options above seem like it. The oft-mentioned RailsInstaller for Windows might be useful at the beginning stages, but still has serious limitations as one progresses. > Any help and direction would be appreciated... -- Tamara Temple [email protected] http://www.tamouse.org -- 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/m2fuxw6qxk.fsf%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
