From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T11:53:00+09:00
Subject: Re: considering writing a book on Ruby/Rails?

Eric H. wrote:
> I understand and yet you also mention the problem with this: the number
> of different platforms it is on and the vast differences that each
> provide. The install for Fedora Core is different from OSX, or Windows,
> and probably Debian and BSD, etc.

Hmmm ... Gentoo Linux:

# emerge rails

Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:

# yum install rails

Debian/Ubuntu:

# apt-get install rails

In all cases, the command will install the dependencies, such as Ruby.

Oh, yeah, you'll need a DBMS.

# emerge mysql
# yum install mysql
# apt-get install mysql

On Windows, there's Instant Rails, and on Macs there's Locomotive. That 
pretty much covers everything except Solaris and BSD. Does anyone want 
to round out my list with those two?