Ruby on Rails

On Sunday 2 September 2012 at 4:30 PM, Bruce Whealton wrote:

I meant no offense. Please, don't take it that way. Let me explain my

post... I had originally intended to use Windows as the environment

for running Ruby on Rails, as a course I was following used both Windows and

Mac. I finally felt convinced that it would be just as well to use

Linux. I had respectfully asked if I could share my experience in trying

this.

I'm just very frustrated as I'm sure anyone can understand. This should not

be so difficult to get up and running. I finally did get Ruby on Rails in

stalled correct (or almost correctly)

and installed a test_app. Then when I tried to create an application with

mysql database, it failed. Some other folks seemed to report some similar

problems which I discovered when I did a web search. Unfortunately, the

solutions were lacking in the articles and stack overflow posts that I read.

The use of Linux was a key part of the issue as it was suggested as a

solution to the problem of not being able to install Ruby when I was using

Windows.

Anyway, I keep going in circles. I get a message saying that I need to

install gem msyql2 which I do and it reports back with no error and so I try

again to install the app with the rails command and I get the same error.

Thanks in advance for your help and time,

Bruce

-----Original Message-----

From: Colin Law

Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 4:04 AM

To: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: [Rails] Help getting started: Newbie: Windows and Rails

On 2 September 2012 06:49, Bruce Whealton <bruce@whealton.info> wrote:

Dheeraj,

And others... I am now convinced to use Linux/Ubuntu in my

VirtualBox installation. I followed the tutorial that was posted earlier.

Colin, on this list, recommended this posting:

http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/05/02/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/

I'll have to lookup that link and try to find it again. I did everything

in

the tutorial, got all the way to the bottom... where it says "Now you can

see your installation of test_app and there is a smiley face. I try that

very last step, where everything above it worked fine and so I go to my

browser, enter http;//localhost:3000

There might have been a directory, I'll have to dig up that tutorial link.

Whatever it said for where to go in the browser is where I went. It says

"Cannot display page..."

Not found... etc.

Why have you just posted this question again? Did you see the

suggestions in my last post?

Now in the course I took online at Lynda.com, called "Up and

Running

with Linux for PHP Developers." The location where we would be installing

software is giving me an error saying I don't have permission to use that

directory. It is /media/sf_sandbox/

I did try the sudo command in front of cd to go to that directory and it

said it didn't recognize sudo cd. It is both embarrassing and very

frustrating that it continues to take me so long to get this working.

After

all this time, I STILL don't have a rails install that I can browse to.

I've never ever had this kind of problem with anything, any programming

language or language environment.

I don't think this is the right place to ask for help with installing

php on linux. It does not seem to have much to do with Rails.

Colin

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