From: Helder Ribeiro <helder@...>
Date: 2007-03-26T09:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEA: Ruby "offline" CD / DVD

On 14 mar, 09:06, SonOfLilit <sonofli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SoC material perhaps?

That'd be a great idea! There's still time. The description Stian gave
is pretty detailed and it seems like he's already done some stuff and
has a good understanding of what needs to be done.

It would be especially great if the stuff on this CD could run on
Windows without administrator privileges. I have this situation at
work, which is the worst imaginable: No internet, have to use Windows,
and can't install InstantRails (afaik)!

Making it a LiveCD is a bit of overkill though, I think, and would
take precious room in the CD/DVD that could be used for something
better. It could then of course be distributed in an Ubuntu/RubyCD
bundle, each in its separate media.


[]'s

Helder


> On 3/14/07, Eleanor McHugh <elea...@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>
> > On 14 Mar 2007, at 08:15, Stian Haklev wrote:
> > > Anyway, I'm throwing this out there, and wondering if it's a good
> > > idea,
> > > if you have any inputs etc. It might be hard to imagine how it is
> > > to be
> > > learningRubywith no or almost no access to the network, but I can
> > > tell
> > > you that I would certainly pick up such a CD/DVD in a heartbeat, and I
> > > think it would be really useful. I'd love nothing more than having a
> > > generation of young creative minds in Indonesia (and other places)
> > > growing up churning out beautifulRubycode! (This idea could
> > > obviously
> > > be extended to covering other programming languages etc, but I'm a
> > >Ruby
> > > guy). Also distribution has to be thought of, but there are lots of
> > > user
> > > groups forRuby/Ubuntu/Linux etc in Indonesia. And we could put it
> > > up as
> > > an ISO, so other user groups in other countries could distribute it as
> > > they saw fit.
>
> > This sounds like a brilliant idea. Getting a usefulRubydistro into
> > the hands of as many programmers as possible would be really good for
> > the growth of the community. If it could be configured so it all ran
> > from the CD with Windows/MacOS X/*NIX that would be even better - the
> > less that needs to be installed, the more that people would be
> > willing to experiment.
>
> > Ellie
>
> > Eleanor McHugh
> > Games With Brains
> > ----
> > raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason