Wednesday, May 29, 2013
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:39:27 PM UTC+1, FMF Corpsman wrote:
Good Day,
I am attempting to write a program that will convert Tibetan Uchen script to Romanized Wylie script. Through my research I believe Ruby Rails is what I will need to bring this to fruition. I only have a simple laptop running 64 bit applications on Vista Home. I have partitioned my drive so that I can load Ubuntu on the 2nd partition. First question, Based on what I want to accomplished, have I surmised correctly that Ruby Rails is in part what is needed? Can I run Ruby Rails on Ubuntu Desktop as opposed to Server? I read a post here that Colin Law suggests using RVM to install Ruby or Ruby Rails, but at the Ruby download page, it only mentions Ruby Gems. Any clarification would be helpful. When it comes to an editor, it lists many include full IDE editors. I could also use some clarification on what editor is compatible with what direction I am taking.
Rubygems is a package manager for ruby libraries, so you need to install ruby before you can install rubygems. RVM is a great way to install ruby and will in addition install rubygems for you. Once you've got ruby gems you can then install rails.
Ubuntu Desktop works just fine. Editors are quite a personal thing, although at a basic level you are just editing text files, so any editor will work, although some will have features that may make your life easier.
Rails is primarily for writing web applications and (at least that's my first impression) it doesn't sound like you're writing a web application. Ruby itself is a fairly general purpose language and may well be good tool to use.
Fred
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