Here my recommendation Stop the bullshit and start developing Ubuntu is your development environment
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 9:33:34 AM UTC-5, krfg wrote: > > 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/de883987-2b20-4e27-9d63-364904f1d8db%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.