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I am a junior programmer and beginning web developer seeking to build a reasonable developement enviroment under windows 8. I bought a new computer a few days ago and for a bunch of different reasons i'm stuck in Win8 for a while to come (let's not get into the specifics of that).
From what I have found on the net, developing in the middle of Windows is at best not worth it, so I'm seeking to set some kind of VM running a unix system. I can hanlde the setup itself, but i'm a bit lost at what ind of VM-ware system i should set up.
I want a unix (i'm thinking Fedora) system with packet manager and terminal but also a graphical text editor and the option of storing(using) files on my windows filesystem.
Do anyone have a suggestion about what kind of system i should consider?
Thanks in advance.
Ruby on Windows is ok, but VM is the way to go.
Here's my write up on how to get VM on Windows
Go all the way down to the section on Windows.
Once you install Ubuntu VM on Windows, follow the Ubuntu section in getting Ruby.
Vagrant is what you want. They changed the logo from an actual vagrant to a synthetic V :-(
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Closed 9 years ago.
Im a beginner in Ruby on Rails and i asked me on which servers i can deploy the framework!
I heard a lot about Heroku, but they was asking me if i can start a ruby on rails application with a database of 4000-10000 entries (i mean little traffic!) on a local server for example from the german company protonet here is the link:
http://protonet.info
Or on an simple windows,linux server? With an Xeon Processor?
Or can somebody suggest a solution for a local server without binding to the internet? the website itself only needs to be visible in the local network!
I thank you a lot!
Yes, you can deploy locally. First thing you'll want to try is 'rails s -p 3000'. Bingo. You now have a fully functional rails server working on your local network. Try accessing it with your ip address and the port. You can deploy on both Windows and Linux, but based on my own experience, you'll prefer Linux (faster and easier).
Windows, with Thin server as a service : http://www.dixis.com/?p=140
Linux : Ideal Rails Server
In general any Unix(y) or Windows server (not recommended) should do it. Most shared hosting companies don't suport ruby so a VPS might be in order for public internet. I deploy always on Ubuntu and just moved to digitalocean.com ($5 / month for a basic VPS) - not endorsing as just moved last week. For internal, I'd suggest a Unix server and possibly rvm for having dedicated ruby install for app.
Heroku / Engine Yard also options.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Every time I look at Rails it changes.
The only guy who keeps up is mhartl. With his fantastic tutorial.
I'm looking for:
rvm simple-user-template-by-mh
Not sure if it is exactly what you need, but I was working hard on this bootstrapping solution to get everything installed what you could need, it's version of RailsInstaller for OSX, we are still doing internal testing but so far no problems were found.
There are available two versions:
Snow Leopard => https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/src/RailsInstaller-0.9.6-osx-10.6-installer.app.tar.gz
Lion => https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/src/RailsInstaller-0.9.6-osx-10.7-installer.app.tar.gz
On fresh OSX machine download it, run it - and enter all the data needed, click install - go grab a coffee or two ... ... ... ...
Installer will setup all the required libraries, ruby-1.9.3, rails 3.2 for you and show you some basic information about it.
In case of any problems you can find me on #rvm irc channel on freenode servers, or open ticket here: https://github.com/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-nix
EDIT1:
here is Michael's sample app: https://github.com/railstutorial/sample_app_2nd_ed
I already asked the team to include the app in RIX, also I asked Michael if we could work on including a command in RVM to bootstrap it for you (with all it needs).
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I was considering migrating from asp.net MVC 3 to Rails, however, when I read that Rails (or Ruby for that matter) dev support on Windows was shacky at best, I began to back-off from this idea. At this point it seems that unless you stick to a LAMP type stack for rails (in dev and production mode), you will have difficulty getting support if you are based on windows.
Is there anybody here who has created a complex rails web app on Windows?
the best you can do as developer is keep your developer's environment closer to real production base. It saves a lot if time on debugging unexpected behaviour and fixing strange bugs. If you don't be able to use *nix, try to setup Virtual Machine with ports forwarding of 22 and 3000 ports
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I use a Mac to develop in RoR, but a crisme of mine needs a Linux machine to develop.
I've tried to install Rails on Ubuntu and Debian 4 times each, but i got all kind of errors you can imagine.
Do someone have any distro that simply work with Rails? Or any tutorial to make this work on Ubuntu or Debian?
Just about any linux distro will work fine. Use RVM, install via instructions and follow the guide for your platform. Once RVM is up and running use gem (and gemsets) to install Rails.
Skip the distro's package manager for Ruby. It will likely be out of date.
It doesn't matter. Use that you know better. If you don't use any linux distro get that use nearest guru.
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Closed 9 years ago.
Mediatemple Rails Grid Container is going to close... so I have to migrate my App. Has anyone tried Rails on Mediatemple (ve) ? or do you recomend something else like Linode or Slidehost?
I've got three Linux (ve) servers with MT and they've been running continuously for over 200 days with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS + Passenger serving Rails 2.x and Rails 3 sites. You could perhaps ask them for this option?
Just a few days back I purchased a Linode account for my personal dev stuff and got a similar setup running fine without any issues. A colleague of mine swears by liquid web and there's also Slice Host and Rack Space to consider. Good luck!
Cheers, M.