I use it successfully in a Mint-Debian distro (which I highly recommend, since its quite lightweight and rolling released).
The only problem I faced happened installing ruby 1.9.2 with rvm, but it's easily solved installing 1.8.2 first and running 'rvm use 1.8.2' before installing 1.9.2. On 24 oct, 21:25, "Jason Hsu, Mr. Swift Linux" <[email protected]> wrote: > Have any of you used Ruby on Rails in Debian or a Debian-based distro > that isn't based on Ubuntu? > > At the moment, I'm using Linux Mint 11 with LXDE (based on Ubuntu) in > VirtualBox to work on Ruby on Rails. I'd prefer using Linux Mint > Debian Edition (which bypasses the Ubuntu overhead) because it's > lightweight. (In fact I like LMDE so much that I'm basing future > versions of my Swift Linux distro on LMDE instead of antiX Linux.) I > don't like the increasing bloat of Ubuntu, and I don't like the > controversial new changes. Thus, I'm interested in pruogramming Ruby > on Rails in a non-Ubuntu distro. -- 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.
