Ruby on Rails

I think the tips I've used when installing rails on Windows is this:

1. Do not use the native package manager to install ruby, rvm and gems.
• Install your own custom rvm, ruby and rails.
• The native package manager generally has very outdated ruby and rvm versions.
• I know this hurts unix purists, but it's your time and using rvm/gem/rails like most other people do will save you a lot of time.
2. Use the railsready script to automate  installing custom rvm, ruby and rails versions.
• https://github.com/joshfng/railsready

I think that's it.

Btw, Rails 3 works best with Ruby 1.9.2. You may bump into bugs with Ruby 1.8.7 that can be hard to detect and debug. So type 'ruby --version' after installing ruby to make sure that you're running a recent version.

Best,

Andy

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:32 AM, David Kahn <dk@structuralartistry.com> wrote:

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ron Tsoref <chieff7@gmail.com> wrote:

First of all, thank you all for your suggestions.

I think I'll finally do the switch from Windows to Ubuntu. I wanted to do it for a while, and I think it's a good time to do it now.

Once I install Ubuntu, what should I do next?

Google for instructions on installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu, then if you run in to trouble post back here. But basically, you want to run the package installer (apt-get) to install ruby. Once ruby is installed you will be able to use ruby gems to install the rest you need. It is probably too much for right now but at some point you shold look at using rvm which helps you manage different versions of ruby on the same machine and to allow different installations of rails configurations for your different projects.
 

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bryan Crossland <bacrossland@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Chief <chieff7@gmail.com> wrote:

What is the best and easiest way of running Ruby on Rails on a Windows
7 machine?

I really want to learn Rails, but I haven't found any easy way of
installing it on Windows 7.

Install a VM of Ubuntu or Linux and develop on that. Avoid installing Ruby or Ruby on Rails on Windows like the plague. You will be in for more trouble that it is worth trying to get everything you need to work on Windows.

B.

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