[Rails] Re: Best Linux distibution for ruby on rails developement?

carmen
Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:06:57 -0000

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..

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