From: Robert Dober Date: 2007-08-13T01:49:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Ubuntu as a Ruby dev environment? On 8/12/07, Alex Young wrote: > Robert Dober wrote: > > On 8/12/07, Alex Young wrote: > >> joviyach wrote: > >>> Developing using things like MySQL, PHP, and Ruby has been an absolute > >>> nightmare on my Windows XP environment. I was wondering if Ubuntu, or > >>> some other flavour of Linux would be much better? I like what I have > >>> seen from Ubuntu, so far, but wonder how "RoR friendly" it is? > >>> > >>> With Windows, I seem to spend more time trying to make the > >>> development environment actually work, than doing any development. > >>> It's really quite aggravating. > >> Ubuntu's great, as long as you're aware of the gotchas (which pretty > >> much amount to "remember to install all the -dev packages and all the > >> parts that Ruby was split into"). > > That is because Ubuntu is not made for development platforms, so my > > first answer would be, look somewhere else, Debian unstable (which > > means stable of course, that is just Debian jargon), > Debian makes the same choice. Unless that's changed in unstable, of > course... Hmm hopefully that is not OT, but if one choses Debian, unstable is a must, I feel. So you are right Alex if you opt for stable, but really that is a crazy choice. I just came up with a little File Server app we need for file sharing, (thx to the list and Pit Capitain in particular). I deployed it on Gentoo with no pain at all. Than I wanted it to share with a different dept, they use Debian stable, no way to get a decent Ruby version to run let alone with openssl... So right now I am lobbying for Debian unstable in that dept. to get my Ruby foot into the door .... With Debian stable it is virtually impossible to get up to date versions and security fixes, just forget it. Cheers Robert > > -- > Alex > > -- [...] as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Attributed to Albert Einstein