On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Jason Clark <[email protected]>wrote:
> All - > > Let me preface this with saying that I'm very much new to Ruby on > Rails. > > At the time of this post, available versions are: > > - Ruby 1.9.2 > - Gems 1.6.2 > - Rails 3.0.5 > > I'm trying to set up several working environments in order of > priority: > > 1) Testing/Learning environment on my system (Windows 7, 64-bit) > 2) Shared environment so that I can learn with a developer friend of > mine. > 3) Hosting/Deployment environment. > > Re: #1 - I have everything installed and have tried several IDEs with > hardly any success (RadRails 2, NetBeans 6.9.1, and RubyMine 3) - yet > haven't been able to set up a fully working/stable environment. Could > be convinced not to use an IDE too, but still need to be able to test > on localhost. > > Re: #2 - Tried to combine 2 & 3 by using AWS. Got it going kinda, but > honestly don't know what I'm doing. Maybe Slicehost or Linode would > be better. Want to avoid EngineYard and some of the "expensive" > options because I can't afford it and don't want to pay that much to > learn Rails. Remember that #2 is my priority, so it doesn't exactly > have to be the "final destination" for my application. > > SO... > > Can folks weigh in on tried & true methods for getting up and > running. I'm a bit frustrated, and thought I'd turn to the experts > for advice. This help could come in any form you're able to give - > step by steps, links, replies, pointers, articles, etc... > > Any/all help is greatly appreciated! THANK YOU! > > You are coming from other languages and you are trying to carry over all of your habits to rails, thats why you are so confused, first of all rails does not needs an ide, second your app will come with everything you need to develop once you run rails new command and create it, it will have testing, and a webserver indise for development. Everything can be managed via de console and you dont need and ide. Rails is free, open source and easy, so it changes a lot that is why you will get confused easily if you find that soem tutorials dont work. Also you will find most of the support comes from the open source community so using an open source OS to program will be so much easier for you as a begginer. If you want to include project collaboration read about git and learn to use it. Since rails is based on ruby and is easy to create new libraries for it you will need a gem(libraries) dependency manager, that is bundler will do for you. -- 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.
