From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T20:08:22+09:00
Subject: Re: "Rolling with Ruby" for Linux?

Lyndon Samson wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 6:59 AM, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'm finally getting around to trying out Rails and I'm using Curt Hibbs'
>>OnLamp article to get me going.
>>
>>Problem is it's for Windows.  The article refers to MySQLfront which
>>appears to be a Windows only program for setting up and maintaining the
>>database.  I'm thinking that I probably need mysql_administrator in the
>>case of Linux so I downloaded it and tried it.  So far I haven't been
>>able to connect to the database.
>>
> 
> A great article, but I'm a bit surprised at the proportion of GUI
> screenshots, it would have been nice to have create table sql/ddl
> scripts instead/as well.
> 

That was a conscious decision on my part. The idea was to bring those 
who were used to things like VB and MS Access. I figured people who 
preferred command line interfaces would have no problem figuring out 
what they needed to do.

Covering both ways of was not an option either. The article was already 
too long, and I actually had to cut things out to get it down to size.

Curt