Steve Mills wrote in post #955228: > Unfortunately, I'm such a newbie to this, I don't have git,
Then get it. > don't see > why I need it when I use subversion for version control, Because it's a better VCS than Subversion is. Subversion uses a less powerful paradigm (centralized, whereas Git is decentralized) and has no real merging algorithm, which makes branching and merging needlessly difficult. See http://www.whygitisbetterthanx.com for more details. I don't want to hijack this thread. > and it doesn't > get automatically installed with Ruby. So? [...] > > It's a pity that the only real clue is this patch and that someone > couldn't readily say what file is at fault and how to edit it. The patch says exactly that. That's what a patchfile is: a representation of what changes get made where. For > > I'll install git You don't need to *for this patch*. See my last post: you don't need git to apply the patch. Just use the patch command. (But you should install git for development in general.) > and investigate further if and when I find something > that doesn't work with 1.9.1. Meanwhile I think it's poor that 1.9.2 was > released with such a major bug that rake doesn't work. I don't think that's a 1.9.2 bug, but I could be wrong. I believe it's a Rake issue. > > Here I am trying to decide whether or not ruby on rails is as good as > everyone makes out, and whether to adopt it and invest a great deal of > time in it, and I'm put off by such hurdles at the very first step. You can use Ruby 1.8.7 if you'd rather. But everything in Rails development is harder on Windows, or so I'm told (I personally stay as far away from Windows as I can). **** Also...I don't know if it's deliberate, but I get the impression of a somewhat hostile, combative attitude when I read your last couple of posts. I understand that getting a development environment set up can be difficult and sometimes frustrating, but you have to be willing to learn new tools. If I'm misreading your intent, then I apologize. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
