Ruby on Rails

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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