Ruby on windows works fine. The package you have there works fine for general web development with Rails. However you've got a lot of things oyu have to learn in order to be able to build a blog in 10 minutes.
I have a couple of resources you might find useful though: First, I maintain a simple tutorial for beginners which you can get from http://www.napcs.com/resources/rails/cookbook/index.html which will give you a basic introduction to Rails. You'll build a small application and then give you some places to go next. Next, I really recommend the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book. You can get a PDF right now and it will get you going on the right path. http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition After that, get working on stuff. Build things and ask questions when you get stuck. The community is awesome and is willing to help you. -Brian On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, ROGER BIRD <rogerbi...@msn.com> wrote: > I am the psychopathic programmer: I do not make Silly User Errors. The > World is against me. > > (:->) > > All I have done today is Silly User Errors. If you guys say that Ruby is > FrickingFantastic and works just fine in Windows, I am going to believe you > and I am going to push on and learn this and make it work for me. I saw > that video of that guy doing a blog page, and although I have very little > idea what he was doing when he was doing it, I am impressed with the result. > > Roger > >> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:00:14 +0100 >> From: rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net >> To: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [Rails] Re: Utter Newbie, HELP!!!! >> >> >> ROGER BIRD wrote: >> > So where is irb? >> > >> >> Sorry for the incomplete answer... >> >> irb (Interactive Ruby) is another package to load on your machine... >> >> For linux (Ubuntu 8.04 is my flavor), >> >> sudo apt-get install ruby >> sudo apt-get install ri >> sudo apt-get install rdoc >> >> would be the bare minimum I would do... >> >> Windows? I think it came in my general install of ruby186-26.exe >> >> And thus far, I have yet to encounter a real Ruby issue, usually it's >> just a Silly User Error, meaning mine, or my lack of understanding on >> the Ruby syntax (it is light years ahead of what I develop with >> day-to-day). >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
