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Burgresso

January 14th, 2006, 05:52 PM

Hi everyone.

I'm curious about Ruby on Rails - and have questions I was hoping the ubuntu community could help me with.

Although I have heard it's more of a mac thing, can it be developed on Ubuntu? If so, what do I need/need to do? For example, do I need a specific editor (like Quanta+ for web or PHP)? And what do I need to download? I'd be interested in playing with Ruby On Rails for web development.

Thanks in advance!

Burgresso

oakz

January 14th, 2006, 07:05 PM

try this article for a nice intro to Ruby on Rails:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html

(yes you can develop RoR on Linux, or a Mac, or Windows...)

pertti

January 14th, 2006, 07:18 PM

This page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RubyOnRails) in the Ubuntu Wiki which explains how to install it using RubyGems instead of apt-get, so you'll have the latest version.

pertti

January 15th, 2006, 06:50 AM

Speaking of editors, you can use a lot of them. Most editors highlight ruby code, and some of them also highlight rhtml (ruby embedded in html). I played a bit with RoR using vim, which does understand rhtml using this script (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=403).

There's also a plugin for Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) called RadRails (http://www.radrails.org), which looks great, but I haven't used it yet.

Burgresso

January 17th, 2006, 05:39 AM

Thanks everyone!

viscount

January 17th, 2006, 07:36 AM

Emacs also has great highlighting support and auto tab completion
among other nicetys.

Ruby is a lot of fun. Great community.

gord

January 17th, 2006, 09:32 AM

don't forget django (http://www.djangoproject.com/), its like ruby on rails but designed for python and with slightly diffirent design phylosophys so it has some diffirent stuff.

dudus

February 6th, 2006, 11:45 AM

Hi everyone.
Although I have heard it's more of a mac thing, can it be developed on Ubuntu? If so, what do I need/need to do? For example, do I need a specific editor (like Quanta+ for web or PHP)? And what do I need to download? I'd be interested in playing with Ruby On Rails for web development.
Burgresso

Forget about this mac thing. Total mistake.

The language is interpreted so could be developed and deployed on any system that has the interpreter, wich includes ubuntu.

I strongly recomend you not to install rails from apt but to follow the wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RubyOnRails).

From the repos you'll only need the ruby(1.8) interpreter.

cheers