Ruby on Rails

RVM doesn't support Windows, so there's that...

Walter

On May 21, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Cody Skidmore <cody@skidmore.us> wrote:

> Does RailsInstaller support RVM?
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> On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:03:56 AM UTC-4, Brian Hogan wrote:
> I teach Rails and have done so for nearly 8 years in workshops and classroom settings. The way to do this on Windows is to use RailsInstaller. http://railsinstaller.org/en
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> It sets up everything you need, including Git and SSH keys. It supports Ruby 2.1 and Rails 4.1, but upgrading to Rails 4.2 is easy.
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> You will use a new dedicated command prompt to work with Rails, as the RailsInstaller does not modify your system PATH.
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> This works fine on Windows 7 x64, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Cygwin and other solutions are much more hackish.
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> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Cody Skidmore <co...@skidmore.us> wrote:
> I tried Rails development a couple of ways including Cygwin. It's too much hassle. If you really want to do Ruby/Rails development, doing it on Linux is the way to go. You are much better off installing Linux in VirtualBox or another VM manager. I use Linux Mint 17.1 which makes it easy to use Linux. Windows Hot keys work and the UI is very familiar.
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> As a fellow Windows guy, I understand any hesitation you might have about switching to Linux. I can tell you from first hand experience Linux has come a long, long way. I switched two years ago (about the time Windows 8 came out) and haven't looked back. I'm not a Windows hater or a Linux fan-boy. I'm just pragmatic and use tools that work.
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> Respectfully,
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> Cody Skidmore
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