Peter Macgown wrote in post #965230: > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #965219: >> Peter Macgown wrote in post #965218: >>> Hi Marnen, >>> >>> I have three different PC's running Windows (2 XP's and 1 Vista) at >>> disparate locations. >> >> Those should be binary-compatible, then. (Why you'd torture yourself >> with Windows is another question. :) ). >> >> Unix is moot since it is not available to me. >> >> Of course it's available to you: you can always install a VM. >> > > Unfortunately, this would complicate matters for me. Not only would I be > trying to teach myself Ruby, I would be futzing with a VM configuration > and I wouldn't know what was wrong if it didn't work.
VMs are generally easy to set up. Try it! "I wouldn't know what to do" is seldom a good reason not to try something. Most of the time (as here), things are a lot easier than we fear. [...] > I want to carry a flash drive so I can do development in different > places without having to install Ruby on each of them. And you need all your dev libraries, and all your dev tools, and... [...] > It's sort of a fake project and I was looking for an excuse to do it. > I've been playing with an Arduino board and thought that it would be > interesting if I could use Ruby to collect the data rather than C++, C#, > or another .net thing I have hanging around. Not a bad idea; for one thing, Ruby frees you from being tied to Windows... > > Using a flash drive solves one of the problems. I have an hour to spare > here and there at different locations and wanted to take advantage of > them without having to set up a development environment for each one of > the computers. Why not use your own laptop? Even if you use a flash drive, you'll probably have to set up a development environment to some extent. I really think that the best solution in this case is to run a VM off the flash drive. > >>> The Rails part intrigues me since it can be >>> used for other languages besides Ruby. >> >> What? Rails is built in Ruby. There's no question of other languages. >> Or do I misunderstand. >> > > Nope. You get it. I show my ignorance here about Ruby and its > relationship with Rails, or Rails in general for that matter. There is, > however, a book out there that talks about developing Flash programs > using Rails and I was making an oblique referenct to this. That's got nothing to do with the Ruby side of things. Rails is server-side. Flash is client-side. (And please, *don't* use Flash these days. HTML5 and JavaScript should get you where you need to go.) [...] > The point, I guess, is to answer the question, "can it be done?". If > yes, that's great. If no, that's great too. If the answer is no, then > the next step is to determine how to be as minimally invasive to the > desktop as possible to make it work. Use a VM, preferably a *nix one (VirtualRails might be a good place to start). Put that on the flash drive. Do all development within the VM. Nothing has to be touched in the host environment. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- 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-t...@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.
