Does RailsInstaller support RVM? 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 > > 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. > > You will use a new dedicated command prompt to work with Rails, as the > RailsInstaller does not modify your system PATH. > > This works fine on Windows 7 x64, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Cygwin and > other solutions are much more hackish. > > > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Cody Skidmore <co...@skidmore.us > <javascript:>> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> Respectfully, >> >> Cody Skidmore >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/06b549a0-986f-409c-bb1f-327460ea5cd3%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/06b549a0-986f-409c-bb1f-327460ea5cd3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
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