Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for development of RoR apps? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Not sure about what anyone else uses but Ubuntu Dapper has everything you need so long as you install all the ruby packages / db stuff, then install gem from "source" and then gem install rails. I''ve had no problems with this setup at all. Hope that helps, Nicholas Nate wrote:> Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > development of RoR apps? > >
This question re-surfaced periodically. A search of the archives will show that a variety of OS''s are used for a variety of reasons. There is even a Rails LiveCD project who''s goal is to provide everything you need to develop rails in one place. That said, I have tried several flavors, and have found Fedora Core 5 to be the easiest to get rails up and running on. It comes with Ruby, MySQL5, and PostGresQL 8. Does a good job of recognizing hardware. The rpm package manager ''yum'', is easy to use. RadRails, (with, or without Eclipse), provides a robust IDE. My 2 cents. Then again, your mileage may vary :) -Larry On 7/6/06, Nate <nathwdavis@yahoo.com> wrote:> > Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > development of RoR apps? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060706/27e98758/attachment.html
Nate wrote:> Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > development of RoR apps?The jury is still out. I use debian, but you have to go beyond stable to get the latest ruby. This is true of most of the major distros where stability is more important than bleeding edge. SuSE 10.0 ships with an old Ruby, 10.1 is more up to date. I don''t know about Fedora, as I haven''t tried Red Hat since version 4.2 (nothing against Red Hat, I just never needed more than debian). Ezra Z. did a great walk through on his blog for debian: http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html You can try the Linux live cd: http://www.railslivecd.org/ (It is PC Linux OS based, and usable, even though it is in version 0.1.1) This will give you a recent kernel, recent Rails and Ruby, RadRails and more stuff. Ubuntu may be popular, because it is popular in general!It always has leading edge stuff available through the backports. Slackware and Gentoo based distros are always a good choice for developers who are not afraid of compiling things. If you have experience with a distro, use that distro. Otherwise try out the live cd. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Gentoo works great for Rails. Package management is similar to te freebsd ports system. It is very developer friendly :-) On 7/6/06, Nate <nathwdavis@yahoo.com> wrote:> Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > development of RoR apps? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Nate wrote:> Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > development of RoR apps?My personal favorite is Ubuntu for development and Debian for production use but I install Ruby/Rails from source on both. I find it to be a much freindlier environment for a ruby applications. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Thanks for the input everyone. Regarding the Rails LiveCD: Which distro does it use? Debian seems to be pretty popular for Rails production server. Since Ubuntu is debian-based (right?), then perhaps that is a good choice. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Nate wrote:> Thanks for the input everyone. > > Regarding the Rails LiveCD: Which distro does it use? > > Debian seems to be pretty popular for Rails production server. Since > Ubuntu is debian-based (right?), then perhaps that is a good choice.it is based on PC Linux OS: http://www.pclinuxos.com/ pclos for short. A few years ago a hacker named Texstar took a live mandrake distro, polishihed the kernel and added synaptic and a whole lot of other goodies. The rails live cd should work with all of the pclos packages. It is really easy to make live cd''s with pclos. Texstar have created a slimmed down version called "minime" that lets you build from a small selection and add what you want. (http://www.capnkirby.com/MiniME.html) In terms of the live cd, the distro is less important. It just works. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Ubuntu 6.06 is awesome for Rails. It''s really simple to set up. On 7/6/06, sean lynch <sean.seanlynch@gmail.com> wrote:> > Nate wrote: > > Thanks for the input everyone. > > > > Regarding the Rails LiveCD: Which distro does it use? > > > > Debian seems to be pretty popular for Rails production server. Since > > Ubuntu is debian-based (right?), then perhaps that is a good choice. > > it is based on PC Linux OS: > http://www.pclinuxos.com/ > > pclos for short. A few years ago a hacker named Texstar took a live > mandrake distro, polishihed the kernel and added synaptic and a whole > lot of other goodies. > > The rails live cd should work with all of the pclos packages. > > It is really easy to make live cd''s with pclos. Texstar have created a > slimmed down version called "minime" that lets you build from a small > selection and add what you want. (http://www.capnkirby.com/MiniME.html) > > In terms of the live cd, the distro is less important. It just works. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060706/a5a278b4/attachment.html
A second to Fedora Core 5! To set up an RoR dev environment, I did only yum''s and gem''s and don''t remember I did any make''s, unlike in FC4. Sending 2 cents to Larry. :) Larry Kelly wrote:> This question re-surfaced periodically. A search of the archives will > show > that a variety of OS''s are used for a variety of reasons. There is even > a > Rails LiveCD project who''s goal is to provide everything you need to > develop > rails in one place. > > That said, I have tried several flavors, and have found Fedora Core 5 to > be > the easiest to get rails up and running on. It comes with Ruby, MySQL5, > and > PostGresQL 8. Does a good job of recognizing hardware. The rpm package > manager ''yum'', is easy to use. RadRails, (with, or without Eclipse), > provides a robust IDE. > > My 2 cents. Then again, your mileage may vary :) > -Larry-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Ubuntu Dapper for me. A snap to set up. On 7/6/06, Nate <nathwdavis@yahoo.com> wrote:> > Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > development of RoR apps? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- "Impossible is nothing." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060707/596ddd27/attachment.html
With Ubuntu, do you still go thru installing Ruby, gem, rmagick, etc...from source, or are there packages that "just work" and are at the latest versions? - rob On 7/7/06, zer0halo <zerohalo@gmail.com> wrote:> Ubuntu Dapper for me. A snap to set up. > > > On 7/6/06, Nate <nathwdavis@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR > > developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for > > development of RoR apps? > > > > -- > > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > > > > -- > "Impossible is nothing." > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-- http://www.robsanheim.com http://www.seekingalpha.com http://www.ajaxian.com
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:53:44PM -0500, Rob Sanheim wrote:> With Ubuntu, do you still go thru installing Ruby, gem, rmagick, > etc...from source, or are there packages that "just work" and are at > the latest versions?there are os native packages for ruby (1.8.2, or 1.9 for the brave) rmagick, mysql, and a bunch of other extension libraries. ( lib.*-ruby ) I installed Gem from source, and use that to install the various gems, since there isn''t a native rubygems package ( yet. It seems that there is a package of rubygems 0.8.11 in debian''s ''experimental'' section http://packages.debian.org/experimental/interpreters/rubygems ) -- ---- [http] devcaffeine.com ------ [pgp] 1024D/17984F07 -------------------- There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better" -- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider" ---------- anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of ---------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060707/2502b275/attachment.bin
On 7-Jul-06, at 6:53 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:> With Ubuntu, do you still go thru installing Ruby, gem, rmagick, > etc...from source, or are there packages that "just work" and are at > the latest versions?Ignore the Rails package on Dapper. It''s borked. Ruby 1.8.4 is already there, so is rmagick; you''ll need to download and install Ruby Gems yourself. Once Gems is installed, installing Rails is a breeze. That said, I usually just download and compile everything from source. /Jeff -- http://re.visioni.st http://quotedprintable.com
On 7/8/06, Jeffrey Hardy <packagethief@gmail.com> wrote:> > On 7-Jul-06, at 6:53 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote: > > With Ubuntu, do you still go thru installing Ruby, gem, rmagick, > > etc...from source, or are there packages that "just work" and are at > > the latest versions? > > Ignore the Rails package on Dapper. It''s borked. Ruby 1.8.4 is > already there, so is rmagick; you''ll need to download and install > Ruby Gems yourself. Once Gems is installed, installing Rails is a > breeze. > > That said, I usually just download and compile everything from source. > > /Jeff > > -- > http://re.visioni.st > http://quotedprintable.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060709/ba107cad/attachment.html
Chalk my vote up for Ubuntu. I was a long time Red Hat guy...then a long(?) time Fedora guy, then a short-time UserLinux guy, and finally...and Ubuntu guy. Ubuntu (thanks to Debian) is by far the most easy to use...you will become completely addicted to apt. yum is a childs toy in comparison. Additionally, Ubuntu typically just works, which is a really nice feeling. I''m using it for both desktops and servers, and am extremely happy. We''re also transitioning to it at my day job. B.A. -- B.A. Baracus: I thought you weren''t crazy no more? Murdock: Only on paper. -- Posted with http://DevLists.com. Sign up and save your mailbox.
Nate, I''am using Suse 10.1 and Ruby Rails works fine. You can also install Suse on an USB drive. Luc. On 9 Jul 2006 01:06:52 -0000, BA Baracus <devlists-rubyonrails@devlists.com> wrote:> > Chalk my vote up for Ubuntu. I was a long time Red Hat guy...then a > long(?) time Fedora guy, then a short-time UserLinux guy, and > finally...and Ubuntu guy. > > Ubuntu (thanks to Debian) is by far the most easy to use...you will > become completely addicted to apt. yum is a childs toy in comparison. > Additionally, Ubuntu typically just works, which is a really nice feeling. > > I''m using it for both desktops and servers, and am extremely happy. > We''re also transitioning to it at my day job. > > B.A. > -- > B.A. Baracus: I thought you weren''t crazy no more? > Murdock: Only on paper. > > -- > Posted with http://DevLists.com. Sign up and save your mailbox. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060709/a4c8a4d9/attachment.html
Nate wrote:>Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR >developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for >development of RoR apps? > > >I''m using Arch at home and Debian at work . In both , Rails works fine . P.S. I didn''t compile anything ))