From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-04-09T02:49:39+09:00
Subject: Re: "Rolling with Ruby" for Linux?

In article <42566613.5070404@hibbs.com>, Curt Hibbs  <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
>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.
>

It took me a while, but after I got the mysql_administator tool running I 
was able to get through the tutorial. (I actually had to learn a bit of 
SQL to do it as well, which is probably a good thing.)

Nice article.  And I can see why everyone is excited about RoR.  I'm 
hoping to put something together to track student grades for my TA job.

Phil