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

Robert Jones
Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:02:58 -0000

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.

Having said that, I currently use Kubuntu and Mandrake 2005 (yep, ancient I
know!) and both work fine with Rails 1.0

It''s been a while since I set up the environments, but I remember both
being
pretty painless, so long as you stick the the dictum that you should NOT
waste time trying to get Apache and Rails playing together nicely on your
development box.  Use Webrick or Lighttpd via the script/server script.


Robert

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
>