Hi, I am on Kanotix linux since the first distribution was released by Kano. However I am tired of the "if it can go wrong it will go wrong on Kanotix" pattern. Please recommend a distribution that by your experience is best for ruby on rails development and need no hour-long tweacks for even "simple" tasks. Thanks, Jan Martin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Jan Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I am on Kanotix linux since the first distribution was released by Kano. > However I am tired of the "if it can go wrong it will go wrong on > Kanotix" pattern. > > Please recommend a distribution that by your experience is best for ruby > on rails development and need no hour-long tweacks for even "simple" > tasks. > > Thanks, > Jan Martin > You should find the thread "Poll: Which distro do you use for Rails/Ruby development?", which started on 29th March, useful. regards Justin
> I am on Kanotix linux since the first distribution was released by Kano. > However I am tired of the "if it can go wrong it will go wrong on > Kanotix" pattern. yeah if YaST doesnt do something right on SuSE, good luck.. or if the package you want isnt in debian/ubuntu, youre in LinuxFromScratch territory.. > Please recommend a distribution that by your experience is best for ruby > on rails development and need no hour-long tweacks for even "simple" > tasks. ironically i'd say gentoo is the best here. since tweakers use it, the default configuration is the most pain-free and working around. i think tweakers also use arch-linux, although i havent tried that since it is primarily binary-based and ix86 only last i looked.. its going to be a bit weird on any of them, in that you'll likely get a hodge podge of stuff installed via gems, installed via the OS package system, and installed via SVN/tarballs/etc. Gentoo mitigates this a bit by using portage as a frontend which just calls gems for most things, but with the added bonus of it being tracked alongside eveyrthing else youve installed..it similarly integrates well with CPAN.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Gregory Seidman
2006-Apr-01 16:06 UTC
Re: Best Linux distibution for ruby on rails developement?
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 02:06:54AM +0200, carmen wrote: } > I am on Kanotix linux since the first distribution was released by Kano. } > However I am tired of the "if it can go wrong it will go wrong on } > Kanotix" pattern. } } yeah if YaST doesnt do something right on SuSE, good luck.. or if the } package you want isnt in debian/ubuntu, youre in LinuxFromScratch } territory.. [...] I take issue with that. If you want a package that isn't among the thousands available for Debian, you can generally download the tarball and configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install If it is a matter of version (e.g. the version you need is in unstable, but you are using stable), you can almost always download the unstable source package and build it with dpkg-buildpackage to generate an installable .deb for your system. I use Debian as my development and deployment platform for Ruby (both Rails and otherwise, with the exception of a script that works on iPhoto albums and, therefore, is most useful under MacOS X). I am running mostly testing (etch) with a bit of unstable (sid). I had no trouble installing Ruby 1.8, or the associated rdoc, ri, and irb. Installing the native PostgreSQL Ruby library was an apt-get install, as was RMagick. Due to bugs in the gem install, I had to fight with it a bit since I wanted it in /usr/local instead of /usr, but I would have had a working gems installation if I had done a normal install. (There is also work being done to wrap gems with Debian packages, but I'm not sure how far it's gotten.) Once I had gems, installing Rails was a snap. All in all, it was very easy. On this list (and ruby-talk), in the last several month I've seen messages asking for help in installing Ruby, Rails, RMagick, etc. on Windows, MacOS X, SuSE, Fedora Core 4 (and maybe other versions), and Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). I also remember people needing help with installing Ruby 1.8.4 on K/Ubuntu and being told that Dapper Drake would have it. I have not seen any messages seeking installation help on Debian, and it isn't because it isn't used. (The same can probably be said of Gentoo.) Note that I have seen people needing help with Rails deployment on Debian. I had great success with apache2 and mod_fcgid (both installed via apt-get), and it only involved a little tweaking of dispatch.fcgi and my apache2 configs. --Greg