Do you have internet connectivity on all your workplaces? Why not setup all the dev stuff on a remote server and vnc to it from all your workplaces?
Martin On Nov 30, 11:13 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > 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-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org > > -- > Posted viahttp://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.
