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I am just getting off the ground with RoR. (actually just walking out to the runway) I want to setup a development / test environment as close to the production environment as possible except for OS (Win XP for Dev, Linux for Prod). I have Apache, MySQL, PhP installed and operating close enough to the production environment that all the PhP stuff I''ve done in the past seems to work

Hi! Can anyone give me some pointers on how to deploy a Rails application developed under Windows with RadRails at a Unix Host (Textdrive). I?ve heard of switch tower, but have never used it. Does it have a routine to convert my Windows Carriage Returns/Line Feeds to Unix style? Is there something else I should know? Also, if somebody can point me to a good tutorial on setting up Rails to

So, the question for you who are RoR Gurus: is RoR the way to go? Here''s the challenge... A community service site (application?) that includes: * Community Forum * Blog (kind of - more like an editoral comment section) * Weather Forecasts by locale * Road Conditions * real time weather data * Searchable, by category & locale, Business Directory * Live Camera feeds *

What is the likelyhood that major inexpensive webhosts like godaddy, bluehost, etc. will upgrade to RoR 1.1? Is this going to be like PHP 5 where it has to percolate for a year or more before it becomes widly available? Your thoughts? Along the same lines... is it possible to adopt some of the new improved Ajax / javascript capabilities without actually upgrading the ruby installation?

I''ve been using the radrails eclipse plugin with ruby 1.0 & Rails 1.8.2 up until this morning... I just installed Ruby 1.8.4 (one-click installer rc1) and Rails 1.1. Now the rails eclipse plugin does not seem to be aware of how to run ruby and has lost the ability to start the webrick server. I''m sure it''s a simple configuration issue but the radrails

I''m currently planning a social app in Rails that relies on being able to see how far you are from everyone else. It''s my intention to store rough geo-coordinates as part of the sign up process. My intention is to capture their zipcode or postal code, and then be able to query a webservice once for that data. It''s also possible that there might be a database or even

Has anyone tried out the Yahoo! User Interface Library (js) with Rails? How does it compare with prototype & scriptaculous? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.