[Rails] Re: Linux distros

sean lynch
Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:09:52 -0000

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.

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