Agreed on all points. One thing to add is, if they are “married” to a Windows environment settings up something like Virtualbox with Ubuntu to use as their development environment might be a good step. + You get to learn some ops stuff along the way. :)
-James > > First work right through the tutorial at railstutorial.org, which is > free to use online and uses cloud9 for development so everything can > be done in the browser and is not dependent on a particular OS. That > will show you the basics of Rails. Then I suggest you rethink your > plan to use Aptana on Windows and instead use a linux version such as > Ubuntu, or use a Mac. Some do claim success on Windows but many more > use Linux or Mac and there will be little help available for you here > and on the forums if you use Win. > > Colin > -- 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/28C2387D-513F-4E45-B955-C0EB7466E303%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
