[Rails] Re: Trying to work through update of Ruby and Install of Rails

Hello thanks for your help The book I am following "Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Edition" says that their editor of choice is TextMate which I am familiar with so I may stick with it. But I am not so attached to it that I wont use xCode if it looks good. I read some on the site you lis

[Rails] Trying to work through update of Ruby and Install of Rails

Hello all Newb alert... I am trying to install Rails and also update ruby. I am running OSX and found that my Ruby version is 1.8.7 Where I am confused is that on the Rails site it mentions that Ruby comes with "Developer Tools" for Mac users... So I looked on the Apple site and read up a bit o

[Rails] Re: RoR to interact with DB on IIS server

Yea I think your right, this is way outta my league. What has always confused me is how developers make it from their first book and building their hello world or calculator app, to actually programming a real world solution. When I sit down to see what I can try to create, I always draw a blan

[Rails] RoR to interact with DB on IIS server

Hello All I am new here. First off, I have never been a great programmer, or even a functional one… I worked briefly with ASP back years and years ago and was able to create a database driven site. The height of my achievements… I am now diving into Ruby with the hopes that this will be my first