RVM doesn't support Windows, so there's that... Walter
On May 21, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Cody Skidmore <c...@skidmore.us> wrote: > 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> 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. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/06b549a0-986f-409c-bb1f-327460ea5cd3%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9fde1838-a2b7-45c8-bfe1-23510ee182b0%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/0195C580-8333-49DE-A5C2-5A9292916A49%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
