Having finished the Michael Hartl Rails tutorial, which uses Cloud9 as development environment, I would like to redo it configuring my machine (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) as a local development environment.
I am determined to use *Atom* + Terminal, and I would really appreciate some help in determining what remains of all the necessary software to be installed in my computer, because the tutorial is not much helpful in this respect. Before Rails I decided to study some Ruby. In the official Ruby web page <https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/#railsinstaller>, Bitnami RubyStack is recommended as a complete development environment for Rails. Since I planned to study Ruby for Rails, I installed Bitnami RubyStack: would you recommend to keep it? Or, as I suspect, it would be better to install each component separately? The official Rails web page used to provide a link <http://guides.railsgirls.com/install#setup-for-linux> for those interested in how to install the Ruby on Rails development environment: would that be a recommendable solution? Combining my brief experience as a student and The RailsApps Project suggestions <http://railsapps.github.io/installrubyonrails-ubuntu.html>, I suppose I need the following applications: - A *database*: the Rails Tutorial uses *SQLite* but Heroku recommends to use *PostgreSQL* also in development (Heroku uses PostgreSQL). I am undecided because on the one hand I completed the course without noticing any incompatibility between SQLite and PostgreSQL, and Michael Hartl says that SQLite is *much* easier than PostgreSQL. On the other hand I do not know the limits of compatibility between the two databases, so I would not like to find myself into trouble. - *RVM*: will I need RVM for switching between Ruby versions? The RailsApps project recommends it. For the tutorial, it was more determinant the possibility to choose the Rails version than that of Ruby. - *Bundler*: is it installed with Ruby of will I need to install it separately? - *Node.js*: the RailsApps project says that "for development on Ubuntu Linux it is best to install the Node.js server-side JavaScript environment". - *Web server*: what local web server would you suggest? *WEBrick*? Apache? The tutorial uses WEBrick. - *Git*: Git is already installed with Ubuntu. Will that be enough? Would you recommend anything else? Finally, I suppose I will need to find documentation on how to configure all these applications: do you have any suggestion about that? Many thanks in advance -- 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/57b1277f-535c-4a6f-b830-3006f5d599be%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
