[Rails] Re: Linux distros

Doug Dupory
Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:06:52 -0000

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


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