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

Larry Wright
Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:17:08 -0000

On 3/31/06, Robert Jones <jonesieboy@btinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi - can''t really answer your question, but one point to watch out
for is
> that Rails 1.1 seems to prefer Ruby 1.8.4.  Ubuntu, which I would
> otherwise
> recommend as an excellent distribution, currently has 1.8.3.
>
> "Dapper Drake", the newest version of Ubuntu (still in beta),
does include
1.8.4, as well as lighttpd. More details here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight5

That said, I''m using OpenSuSE, and it works fine. Granted, this is for
development and not production. It uses 1.8.2, but I''ve not run into
any
issues with 1.1. The only other thing I''ve run into is having t
recompile
the source rpm for lighttpd, but that took all of 5 minutes.
--
Larry Wright
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