Re: [Rails] What Gives? If Rails is so good why is it so hard to install it?

2013-12-28 Thread Scott Eisenberg
I’m on Macs and I found it pretty easy to set up. I remember in the beginning some version hell with the various Gems but that seems to have settled down for me. Maybe I can install a Ubuntu on Parallels on the Mac and see if we can guide you through this (assuming I can get it to work on

Re: [Rails] What Gives? If Rails is so good why is it so hard to install it?

2013-12-28 Thread Scott Eisenberg
Let me re-phrase that, Parallels is downloading 13.04 desktop so let’s work with that version, shall we? On Dec 29, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Scott Eisenberg sco...@btrtrucks.com wrote: I’m on Macs and I found it pretty easy to set up. I remember in the beginning some version hell with the various

Re: [Rails] What Gives? If Rails is so good why is it so hard to install it?

2013-12-28 Thread Scott Eisenberg
More: followed http://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/13.10 (using the choice of rvm) Worked like charm. As they say, do that! Note: Don’t install apt-get ruby or apt-get rails as they will get you older versions. The rails version is 2.3 which is REALLY old. Follow the guide. Then make an app.

Re: [Rails] What Gives? If Rails is so good why is it so hard to install it?

2013-12-28 Thread Dheeraj Kumar
I use a script called RailsReady, which sets up a fresh OSX/Ubuntu/CentOS installation with Homebrew, RVM, Ruby, all supporting libraries, Bundler, Passenger, Rails, Git. https://github.com/joshfng/railsready I've used it 100 times, and it has never given me a problem. -- Dheeraj Kumar

Re: [Rails] What Gives? If Rails is so good why is it so hard to install it?

2013-12-26 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Dan Boyle dan.boyle...@gmail.com wrote: I have spent hours trying to get some version of Rails installed and all to no avail. It seems there are many people who get the same errors but nobody seems to have any answers. I am new to both Rails and Ubuntu. This

[Rails] What Gives? If Rails is so good why is it so hard to install it?

2013-12-25 Thread Dan Boyle
I have spent hours trying to get some version of Rails installed and all to no avail. It seems there are many people who get the same errors but nobody seems to have any answers. I am new to both Rails and Ubuntu. This is where I am trying to set it up. Most recently I went to