On Nov 26, 3:03 pm, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 November 2011 16:23, Luis Lavena <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 26, 8:35 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Not true for 'every single problem'. I think if you were to look at > >> my first post on this thread it says that most advise against using > >> Windows, but if you have to then use railsinstaller. For some reason > >> the OP has declined to do that. > > > I was doing a generalization, a high percentage of that is what I see > > over stackoverflow, here and other forums. > > If the high proportion of what you see is people saying the same > thing... do you think that *maybe* they have a point...? >
Most of the times the developers giving those answers haven't touch Windows in the past 10 years, nor they know anything about RubyInstaller, RailsInstaller or other projects that work to improve the development ecosystem for Ruby. It is funny that Ruby (mostly Rails) is only community I know that attacks developers using Windows while others like PHP or Python just accept them and try to point them to the right places. > > 1) The have the control on their environment to do these type of > > installations (lot of user don't have administrative privileges) > > This is ridiculous - if they have no enough control on their > environments to install Ruby, RubyGems, MySQL (if used), or > RailsInstaller, and any other tools they want to do Rails development, > how do they not have rights to install VirtualBox and a *nix VM?! > You can download binary packages of mysql and extract in your home directory, without installation. If you want to use SQLite3 instead, you can do it. Also goes to ImageMagick, Sphinx, GCC (RubyInstaller devkit) Oh, and I forgot to mention that RubyInstaller and RailsInstaller requires no administrative privileges to be installed, so normal users can install it inside their own user folder. Or better yet, download the binary package of RubyInstaller, extract and use. So, you're ignoring that things work differently, period. -- Luis Lavena -- 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.
