Re: Best Rails environment for Windows 7

Luis Lavena
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:06:48 -0000

On Apr 27, 6:28 pm, David Kahn
<d...-rfEMNHKVqOwNic7Bib+Ti1W1rNmOCjRP@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Chief
<chie...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > What is the best and easiest way of running Ruby on Rails on a Windows
> > 7 machine?
>
> Add a vm running Ubuntu and do your rails work on it. You will have more
> support than trying to deal with Windows, also, chances are you will be
> deploying to a Linux environment so it will put you more on the game.
>

Could be, but you might be ignoring for a second that this simple
statement might come up with a steeped learning curve (learn a new OS,
bash, a package manager, etc).

And after all that *then* you will take a look to the stuff you want
to learn in the first place.

Now, as proper response to the OP: You can install RailsInstaller:

http://railsinstaller.org/

It provides an out-of-the-box experience for you to start playing with
Ruby and Rails.

It bundles the initial components like Git and SQLite3, reducing the
setup/configuration required for creating new applications.

Watch the screencast in the website if you''re still unconvinced.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena

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