Try REE and Passenger:

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Cheers, Sazima

On May 29, 12:59 am, "J. D." <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone - thanks for all of the input.  Here's an update:
>
> I did install VirtualBox on my Vista and got the latest ubuntu and
> created a virtual drive etc., installing it.
>
> I'm now up and running with Vista and Ubuntu
>
> I managed to figure out how to install ruby with a sudo command.  But,
> having a lot of other issues.  I'm not all that familiar with linux so
> here's the list of issues I'm experiencing:
>
> I'm currently using ruby1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
> according to ruby -v.
>
> I managed to get rubygems by typing sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8 and
> that installed the gems system.
>
> I did gems install rails and got a strange error saying that I don't
> have /home/elricstorm/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your path...
>
> I went out on the web and figured out how to change path by doing..
>
> PATH=$PATH:/home/elricstorm/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin
> export PATH
>
> I tried installing hpricot, mysql, a few others and keep getting the
> following error:
>
> WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.8 and
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren't both writable...
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> Error:  Error installing mysql:
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install mysql
> extconf.rb:1:in `require`: no such file to load --mkmf (LoadError) from
> extconf.rb: 1
>
> .. I get this for a few gems, similar...
>
> Any help with my newbish run at linux would be appreciated.  Also, what
> should I be using for an editor to program with on linux.. On windows I
> just used Scite..
> --
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