Re: Best Rails environment for Windows 7

Andreas Saebjoernsen
Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:34:06 -0000

I think the tips I''ve used when installing rails on Windows is this:

   1. Do not use the native package manager to install ruby, rvm and gems.
      - Install your own custom rvm, ruby and rails.
      - The native package manager generally has very outdated ruby and rvm
      versions.
      - I know this hurts unix purists, but it''s your time and using
      rvm/gem/rails like most other people do will save you a lot of time.
   2. Use the railsready script to automate  installing custom rvm, ruby and
   rails versions.
      - https://github.com/joshfng/railsready

I think that''s it.

Btw, Rails 3 works best with Ruby 1.9.2. You may bump into bugs with Ruby
1.8.7 that can be hard to detect and debug. So type ''ruby
--version'' after
installing ruby to make sure that you''re running a recent version.

Best,
Andy

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:32 AM, David Kahn
<dk-rfEMNHKVqOwNic7Bib+Ti1W1rNmOCjRP@public.gmane.org>wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Ron Tsoref
<chieff7-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> First of all, thank you all for your suggestions.
>> I think I''ll finally do the switch from Windows to Ubuntu. I
wanted to do
>> it for a while, and I think it''s a good time to do it now.
>>
>> Once I install Ubuntu, what should I do next?
>>
>>
> Google for instructions on installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu, then if you
> run in to trouble post back here. But basically, you want to run the
package
> installer (apt-get) to install ruby. Once ruby is installed you will be
able
> to use ruby gems to install the rest you need. It is probably too much for
> right now but at some point you shold look at using rvm which helps you
> manage different versions of ruby on the same machine and to allow
different
> installations of rails configurations for your different projects.
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bryan Crossland
<bacrossland-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Chief
<chieff7-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the best and easiest way of running Ruby on Rails on a
Windows
>>>> 7 machine?
>>>>
>>>> I really want to learn Rails, but I haven''t found any
easy way of
>>>> installing it on Windows 7.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Install a VM of Ubuntu or Linux and develop on that. Avoid
installing
>>> Ruby or Ruby on Rails on Windows like the plague. You will be in
for more
>>> trouble that it is worth trying to get everything you need to work
on
>>> Windows.
>>>
>>> B.
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