Hi everyone - thanks for all of the input. Here's an update: I did install VirtualBox on my Vista and got the latest ubuntu and created a virtual drive etc., installing it.
I'm now up and running with Vista and Ubuntu I managed to figure out how to install ruby with a sudo command. But, having a lot of other issues. I'm not all that familiar with linux so here's the list of issues I'm experiencing: I'm currently using ruby1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux] according to ruby -v. I managed to get rubygems by typing sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8 and that installed the gems system. I did gems install rails and got a strange error saying that I don't have /home/elricstorm/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your path... I went out on the web and figured out how to change path by doing.. PATH=$PATH:/home/elricstorm/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin export PATH I tried installing hpricot, mysql, a few others and keep getting the following error: WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.8 and /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren't both writable... Building native extensions. This could take a while... Error: Error installing mysql: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install mysql extconf.rb:1:in `require`: no such file to load --mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb: 1 .. I get this for a few gems, similar... Any help with my newbish run at linux would be appreciated. Also, what should I be using for an editor to program with on linux.. On windows I just used Scite.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
