Ruby on Rails is a really great platform for developing and releasing web applications. At my company, our developers are pretty evenly split between using Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux desktops as their primary development systems.
Setting up Ubuntu to develop in Ruby on Rails is pretty simple, but there are a few gotchas.
To help you learn how to set this up, I have recorded a couple of real-time videos of me configuring from scratch Ubuntu Linux in a virtual machine. The video is completely unedited, so you get to see every typo and everything I needed to lookup on the Internet to get the system running.
Here’s the first video:
http://youtu.be/rvLkvp7GW4A
One commenter, Manal Ahmed, says that this is “the best tutorial for [setting up] Ubuntu”. I’m really glad that Manal got some good ideas from my little video. Please let me know if it helps you out as well.
I have not yet recorded the 3rd video yet and plan to do so if the first two help people out.
Setting up Ubuntu to develop in Ruby on Rails is pretty simple, but there are a few gotchas.
To help you learn how to set this up, I have recorded a couple of real-time videos of me configuring from scratch Ubuntu Linux in a virtual machine. The video is completely unedited, so you get to see every typo and everything I needed to lookup on the Internet to get the system running.
Here’s the first video:
http://youtu.be/rvLkvp7GW4A
One commenter, Manal Ahmed, says that this is “the best tutorial for [setting up] Ubuntu”. I’m really glad that Manal got some good ideas from my little video. Please let me know if it helps you out as well.
I have not yet recorded the 3rd video yet and plan to do so if the first two help people out.