On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM, ProlificCoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am now starting developing in Rails full time. To be more > effective, I want to use one of my old laptops as a server running > rails, source control, database server and other tools. > > My ideal setup is to have all the configurations on that system and to > open ssh terminals into it. I will keep the old laptop running > always. > > I am seeking advice on the following: > 1. What distro linux is best for Rails, right now I have ubuntu server > on it. Any linux distro should be fine as long as you maintain your gems via the gem command. I strongly recommend you not to rely on distros packages for gems, specially on Ubuntu or Debian like, since they might get old soon. > 2. How to I enable remote logging to this machine. (Like I can login > to a dedicated server with a hosting company) Install openssh package, I think in Ubuntu is openssh-server or something like that, then start the deamon and configure it to run at startup (really don't remember how you should do that on Ubuntu, I'm not an Ubuntu's user)
> 3. This laptop has 512 MB ram and 2.2 GHZ is that speed ok? Might be a bit short, I would recommedn at least 1Gb, but it should work, maybe it will seem a bit slow, specially if you will be running all the services there. > > Thanks in advance for your replies. You're welcome. Hope it helps :) BTW, this is just my 2 cents, you should wait for more answers and evaluate them all. -- Leonardo Mateo. There's no place like ~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
