I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A discussion of your general experience would be great, too. (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I''m on FC5 and using Eclipse for RoR development. Works Great. Less Filling. Bryan Duxbury wrote:> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I''ve switched to FedoreCore 5 and RadRails, mongrel for by primary development environment. I find it fast and reliable. If I could get my wireless cards to work with it, I''d replace the Windows on my laptop. ( still keep a windows box for pre-deployment testing if the production environment will be a Windows platform). Note: Just discovered that FederaCore6 is out, but haven''t checked it out, yet. -Larry On 11/2/06, Bryan Duxbury <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >-- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On 11/2/06, Bryan Duxbury <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are.SuSE 10, jEdit, VMWare for testing with IE Switch now, and don''t look back... :-) -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
hi, i tried to use ubuntu over the summer, but being a noob, i always ran into problems with my hardware. linux couldnt use my wireless card on my laptop, on my pc, i had trouble congifuring my sound card. i also had problems with configuring everything to run smoothly(web apps, software, mysql...). i felt that everytime i sudo installed something, i was crossing my fingers in hope no error messages popped up. i finally got around and got RoR up and running but then would run into minor error prompts with mysql, webbrick, rails commands etc...i searched all over the net and found that macOs seemed to have the most information and support. i decided to ditch the linux and buy a mac. since then, i been spending all my time developing and learning RoR as suppose to always having that feeling of ''i hope this installs clean...'' also, i am now a mac fan and broke. buying a mac also forced me to upgrade my monitors. =) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Check out RailsLive CD, it has all the essential tools for Rails development on Linux. You have two options: 1. Boot RailsLiveCD from a CD. 2. Install VM ware player and run the RailsLiveCD. I got the option two working after some struggle and help from the creator of that product. Here is link: http://bparanj.blogspot.com/2006/10/linux-railslivecd-and-vmware-player-on.html Cool thing is that you can save all your work on a flash drive and work on any machine. On 11/2/06, Bryan Duxbury <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hi I''d like to defend ubuntu on the useability point. If you have not used linux before, (as I hadn''t before the spring) it seems like a good one to start with. Particularly on the hardware front where things (like USB internet modems and - for me - soundcards) just work. Most of the problems I have had getting things to work, like wireless and flash, I put down to being on an AMD64 laptop which has risible driver support at the mo.> i felt that everytime i sudo installed something, i > was crossing my fingers in hope no error messages popped up.I don''t think you can get away from this if you are learning linux :-) On the other hand, people do seem to have problems with getting RoR up and running on it, perhaps due to poor package support. (google ubuntu and rails and you should find tons of stuff) For myself the experience has been invaluable, largely because if I had gone with a Mac as I considered I would have then been completely stuffed when I wanted to get my VPS up and running. But that''s only because I was a linux newbie and needed to learn these things. Apart from installation crap, developing on linux has for me been very similar to developing on windows. It''s just RadRails + command line :-) best Dan ps. When you make the switch, you''ll get some odd errors from your previously working apps that I can''t remember off the top of my head. Some of them will be due to windows/unix carriage return incompatibility. Just a quick tip! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Like Daniel, I started RoR on Ubuntu in spring. Before that, I was pretty much all Windows, C++/C#/ASP.NET. I''m using the Dapper Drake release and I don''t have any problems so far. If I remember correctly, I think I chose the "Server Install" option. It did take some getting used to(may be a couple weeks to figure things out) but it has been pretty much smooth sailing every since. I thought not having an IDE with a good debugger would be troublesome but I''m actually surprised that the command line breakpointer + development.log have been enough to solve my problems. Daniel Lucraft wrote:> Hi > > I''d like to defend ubuntu on the useability point. If you have not used > linux before, (as I hadn''t before the spring) it seems like a good one > to start with. Particularly on the hardware front where things (like USB > internet modems and - for me - soundcards) just work. Most of the > problems I have had getting things to work, like wireless and flash, I > put down to being on an AMD64 laptop which > has risible driver support at the mo. > >> i felt that everytime i sudo installed something, i >> was crossing my fingers in hope no error messages popped up. > > I don''t think you can get away from this if you are learning linux :-) > > On the other hand, people do seem to have problems with getting RoR up > and running on it, perhaps due to poor package support. (google ubuntu > and rails and you should find tons of stuff) > > For myself the experience has been invaluable, largely because if I had > gone with a Mac as I considered I would have then been completely > stuffed when I wanted to get my VPS up and running. But that''s only > because I was a linux newbie and needed to learn these things. > > Apart from installation crap, developing on linux has for me been very > similar to developing on windows. It''s just RadRails + command line :-) > > best > Dan > > ps. When you make the switch, you''ll get some odd errors from your > previously working apps that I can''t remember off the top of my head. > Some of them will be due to windows/unix carriage return > incompatibility. Just a quick tip!-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Ubuntu 6.06, Vim text editor with many plugins, mongreal, gnome-terminal I am considering mr_guid right now....... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Bryan, I use Fedora (still FC3) at home, and CentOS/RHEL at work. Setup is more or less the same, using Komodo under KDE (except that at work my desktop runs WinXP and I use an X session under cygwin on the linux machine). Can''t really remember if I had much problems setting things up. When using linux, you bump into issues once in a while. But when using windows, issues arise too (recently had to setup an IIS6, you can''t believe the things I bumped into, felt like crying a few times). Generally, I find it easier to google a solution when a linux issue arises compared to a windows problem. For Rails development I use 4 KDE desktops, which can be reached with a keyboard shortcut. I have separate desktops for komodo, firefox, tail -f of development.log, and webrick. Except when really needing to click something in firefox, I only need to use the keyboard (I''d prefer 4 monitors though ;) My switch to linux was a learning experience that also enabled me to switch jobs (from being a mfc/vc++ programmer for ages) to a more versatile (I also get to do Rails development ;) sysadmin related job. I *might* try Mac OSX in the future, but there''s slight chance I''ll return to windows. (if I''d document all the issues I bumped into when getting that IIS6 to work, I think it would make anyone think twice about installing it) Piet.> -----Original Message----- > From: rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > [mailto:rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Duxbury > Sent: vrijdag 3 november 2006 1:07 > To: rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > Subject: [Rails] [OT] Rails development on desktop Linux? > > > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting > away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are > doing Rails on a desktop Linux distribution, and what your > essential tools are. A discussion of your general experience > would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, > since I already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > > ----~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Likewise I am using ubuntu. The install was a piece of cake and their
forums have newbie sections which explains the basics.
The ubuntu desktop doesn''t by default have the development packages
installed, but getting them is easy.
If you need more info I can post them here.
John
Donut Donut wrote:
Like Daniel, I started RoR on Ubuntu in spring. Before that, I was
pretty much all Windows, C++/C#/ASP.NET. I''m using the Dapper Drake
release and I don''t have any problems so far. If I remember correctly,
I think I chose the "Server Install" option. It did take some getting
used to(may be a couple weeks to figure things out) but it has been
pretty much smooth sailing every since. I thought not having an IDE
with a good debugger would be troublesome but I''m actually surprised
that the command line breakpointer + development.log have been enough to
solve my problems.
Daniel Lucraft wrote:
Hi
I''d like to defend ubuntu on the useability point. If you have not used
linux before, (as I hadn''t before the spring) it seems like a good one
to start with. Particularly on the hardware front where things (like USB
internet modems and - for me - soundcards) just work. Most of the
problems I have had getting things to work, like wireless and flash, I
put down to being on an AMD64 laptop which
has risible driver support at the mo.
i felt that everytime i sudo installed something, i
was crossing my fingers in hope no error messages popped up.
I don''t think you can get away from this if you are learning linux :-)
On the other hand, people do seem to have problems with getting RoR up
and running on it, perhaps due to poor package support. (google ubuntu
and rails and you should find tons of stuff)
For myself the experience has been invaluable, largely because if I had
gone with a Mac as I considered I would have then been completely
stuffed when I wanted to get my VPS up and running. But that''s only
because I was a linux newbie and needed to learn these things.
Apart from installation crap, developing on linux has for me been very
similar to developing on windows. It''s just RadRails + command line :-)
best
Dan
ps. When you make the switch, you''ll get some odd errors from your
previously working apps that I can''t remember off the top of my head.
Some of them will be due to windows/unix carriage return
incompatibility. Just a quick tip!
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Ubuntu Edgy : Vim, Scribes, Mongrel and rails. Ubuntu does not ship with ruby gems, so you have to download and install the gems package and then install rails via gem. Have been using Ubuntu for the last year and a half and have been very happy with it. As a long time linux user, I have worked on all the major distros out there, but have been really happy with Ubuntu. On 11/2/06, Bryan Duxbury <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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Re: Rails development on desktop Linux?
I''m running SuSE 10.1 (soon to be Kubuntu) + RadRails and emacs. No problems, but I''ve also been using Linux as my primary non-work desktop for about 6 years. I will likely move to a Mac next year, but I''m pretty happy with Linux. On Nov 2, 6:06 pm, Bryan Duxbury <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Bryan Duxbury wrote:> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.)I also like Ubuntu, I was a long time Suze/KDE user but recently switched to Ubuntu/Gnome with little or no difficulties -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On 11/3/06, Ilan Berci <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > > Bryan Duxbury wrote: > > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > > I also like Ubuntu, I was a long time Suze/KDE user but recently > switched to Ubuntu/Gnome with little or no difficulties > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >I''m using Suse 10.1 with radrails as development tool. Everything works fine, we also use Suse on our bigger servers. Very stable no problems. Suse 10.1 can also running on a USB disk, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Bryan Duxbury wrote:> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too.I''m using Fedora on a ThinkPad. I use GEdit as my editor (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) when I''m not using vi. script/console is a great thing, and sometimes I dust off the breakpointer or irb. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Switched from OpenSuse (after 10.1) to Kubuntu Dapper (Edgy as of this week) for my main workstation. Server is OpenSuse 10.0. I have Windows Media Center Laptop that I share with my wife, as well. Quick Irony: Kubuntu just works with my HP Officejet and USB devices. The Windows laptop crashed with the OfficeJet (its an HP laptop) and flat out refused to recognize my serial ATA drive. I had to dig out and install a floppy drive to load the driver. Anecdotal, but there you go. I think I prefer Adept/Apt over Yast/RMP (and whatever Novell introduced to in 10.1). Prefer KDE over Gnome, but that''s a preference. Been giving Komodo 3.5, RadRails 7.x and jEdit a workout for the past few months. BTW, each are available for Linux/OSX/Windows. jEdit and it''s plugins are outstanding. Configurable and flexible. GPL, I believe. Keeps you honest, too. Komodo is flexible as well. It''s Ruby support is good, but Rails adds a little nuance. Not free in any sense. RadRails is Rails-centric (go figure) and is a good compromise between Komodo and JEdit. I''ve been using Komodo the most, then jEdit. RadRails is good (especially debugging), but it is a single task critter. I guess if you use it as a plug-in to Eclipse that is not true. Firefox and Konqueror, Konsole (bash), the MySQL GUI stuff (cross platform), DIA, and RapidSVN (also cross platform). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Bryan Duxbury wrote:> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.)I currently do my Ruby/Rails development on an HP Intel box running Gentoo Linux, and haven''t had a single problem. If you''re new to Linux, I would also recommend OpenSuse, as it is much simpler than Gentoo to configure and maintain, and I''ve had good experiences doing Ruby development using it as well. I use eclipse for my Ruby development, and a couple of great plug-ins: RDT & RadRails. I''ve actually found these tools to be more stable on my Gentoo box than on Windows (especially the debugger). If you''re familiar with eclipse development, you''ll find the experience with RDT and RadRails pretty familiar. The Ruby tools for eclipse are more or less comparable with the Java tools, with the exception of the debugger and the search functionality, which still need a bit of work. All in all, I''ve found the experience developing in Ruby/Rails on Linux to be positive. Hope this helps. cheers. - Bryan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On 11/2/06, Bryan Duxbury <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > (Let''s say for the moment that Mac OSX is out of the picture, since I > already have very good non-proprietary hardware.) > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >I too, do some Ruby/Rails development on Linux. I have a post on my site where I described my process of how I install Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu. Perhaps someone here might find it useful... http://www.linuxlooney.com/past/2006/8/15/installing_ruby_and_rails_on/ Cheers, Aaron Kulbe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:44AM +0100, Bryan Duxbury wrote:> > I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too.I''m running Debian testing. I use KDE and konqueror for file browsing. Navicat Linux for DB administration, and my editor of choice is vim. It is not noob friendly, but I find I am much faster with a highly scripted vim setup rather than an ide such a RadRails. RadRails is very nice and very very powerful, but I like my vim keybindings :) -John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
John Oxley wrote:> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:44AM +0100, Bryan Duxbury wrote: >> >> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. >> I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on >> a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A >> discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > I''m running Debian testing. I use KDE and konqueror for file browsing. > Navicat Linux for DB administration, and my editor of choice is vim. It > is not noob friendly, but I find I am much faster with a highly scripted > vim setup rather than an ide such a RadRails. > > RadRails is very nice and very very powerful, but I like my vim > keybindings :) > > -JohnDitto here (mostly) on the setup. Debian Etch, and/or Ubuntu. I won''t touch Suse with a 10 foot pole after Novell''s deal with Microsoft. Novell is no friend of free software. Anyway: vim for editing, fuse/sshfs for remote filesystems, psql/pgadmin3 for database work and browsercam for cross-OS/browser testing when needed. Dual 17 inch LCDs and an HP AMD 64-bit system set me back around $1100 - fast, stable and cheap. With linux, the whole OS is your IDE. The big issue with Radrails for me is that it''s just too slow (for example - switching tabs - OUCH!) and the editor is horrid compared to vim/emacs. -DJCP -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I run Ubuntu with Scite as the text editor, but I still miss Notepad++ and wish there was Textmate for Linux (or, better yet, that Macs were not insanely expensive in Brazil). Since I run my production apps on Linux I find that developing on Linux is way better, for those little differences between platforms (and library configurations). On 11/14/06, Daniel Collis-puro <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > John Oxley wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:44AM +0100, Bryan Duxbury wrote: > >> > >> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > >> I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > >> a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > >> discussion of your general experience would be great, too. > > > > I''m running Debian testing. I use KDE and konqueror for file browsing. > > Navicat Linux for DB administration, and my editor of choice is vim. It > > is not noob friendly, but I find I am much faster with a highly scripted > > vim setup rather than an ide such a RadRails. > > > > RadRails is very nice and very very powerful, but I like my vim > > keybindings :) > > > > -John > > Ditto here (mostly) on the setup. Debian Etch, and/or Ubuntu. I won''t > touch Suse with a 10 foot pole after Novell''s deal with Microsoft. > Novell is no friend of free software. > > Anyway: vim for editing, fuse/sshfs for remote filesystems, > psql/pgadmin3 for database work and browsercam for cross-OS/browser > testing when needed. Dual 17 inch LCDs and an HP AMD 64-bit system set > me back around $1100 - fast, stable and cheap. > > With linux, the whole OS is your IDE. The big issue with Radrails for me > is that it''s just too slow (for example - switching tabs - OUCH!) and > the editor is horrid compared to vim/emacs. > > -DJCP > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >-- CrisDias www.vilago.com.br, seu site vai gostar de morar aqui --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
> I''m currently a Windows user, but I''m considering getting away from it. > I was wondering if there are developers out there who are doing Rails on > a desktop Linux distribution, and what your essential tools are. A > discussion of your general experience would be great, too.I''m running Ubuntu Edgy, I use vim for editing, and the TagList + my RailsTagList patch (http://en.logilogi.org/HomE/WyboWiersma/RailsTagList) vim-plugin for file browsing within projects, the console for between. Also don''t miss the rails.vim plugin if you decide to go for Vim. Wybo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---