Ok, I'm new to Rails, and I was hoping to get some advice on how to get started.
I'm coming from a .NET background, and from what I've seen of Rails, it looks perfect for a little web idea I had. So I got a book from the library and sat down to install it on my Ubuntu box. Immediately I hit versioning issues. - I installed ruby with apt-get and it gave me 1.8.7. I'm cool with this as I'm new to Ruby as well, and am ignorant to the differences between versions. - Installed rubygems and I got 1.3.5. Again, I don't know the difference - I ran 'sudo gem install rails', and it blew up on me, saying that I needed rubygems 1.3.6 or higher. When I do a gem list, it shows rails(3.0.0), which I hear just came out a week or two ago. Again, I don't know the difference so that's why I'm here. The book I got from the library is older(2007) and using Rails 1.2.3. So my question is: what's the easiest way to get this setup? Is there a major difference between the versions of Rails, and if so, what is it? I just need a plain vanilla setup so I can learn about MVC and such. This web app is pretty basic, I was just wanting some basic ActiveRecord, a few Erb templates and a few dozen lines of ruby business logic. Can someone point me in the right direction? -- 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.
