My 2 cents:
I never used Linux before, the first task I did after installing Ubuntu, a month ago, was to set up a Rails environment, if you´re from Windows world it could take some time just because it´s different to install software in Linux, but once all it´s set up you don´t have to mess a lot with the OS. There are many good tutorials on the web. Now i´m the happy owner of a linux box with a complete Rails environment for free, if it helps I could tell you that I only had 2 problems: 1. Using Netbeans 6.5 for linux I had problems to configure it to use my gems repository for the ruby interpreter (not JRuby), this is when I realize that in Ubuntu I was not the root user! and NB require real root user permissions. I tried to configure GEM_PATH to use a repository inside my user dir but this did not work. After some hours of battle I give up and tried Netbeans 7, and it works!! Of course if you don´t plan to use Netbeans you do not have to care. 2.I recommend to install Git before you start any programming, sooner or later you´ll need it. for example: script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git won ´t work if you do not have Git installed on your system, who knows it!!!. Well this may not be a linux issue but if you are as clueless as me this could save you some time In the end it is a good learning experience, and I do not regret of my decision. Good luck --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
