From: James Nathan Date: 2010-02-04T07:29:44+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and ralis failed --0-1808530948-1265236182=:95744 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii it just do not work and Iam not happy with it. --- On Mon, 2/1/10, Josh Cheek wrote: From: Josh Cheek Subject: Re: ruby and ralis failed To: "ruby-talk ML" Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 9:11 PM On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, James Nathan wrote: > I had just found out that ruby and rails failed me as a programmer, > becaused they are all zipped up. this has led me to belived that the book > will not showed you how to unzipped them. > > This sounds like an issue with the book rather than the language and framework. Unzipping files is quite common, though, surely there are instructions you can find ( with a search engine ) which explain how to unzip the files. More specifically, perhaps you should look into how to install ruby on your operating system. As far as installing Rails, http://gemcutter.org/gems/rails implies that you can use rubygems to install it by simply going to the command line and typing "gem install rails" or "sudo gem install rails" , depending on your operating system and privileges. However, if unzipping files is a major barrier for you, then trying to learn Rails may be biting off more than you can chew. I would advise starting with something that does not have such a steep learning curve. In particular, I am impressed with how simple Sinatra is to get up and running ( http://www.sinatrarb.com/). You can see in this screenshot ( http://i48.tinypic.com/6jowht.png) that with very few steps, you can get a Sinatra application up and running. This would probably be a wiser more fruitful place to start. I don't think there are any books specifically for Sinatra, but there is a nice screencast by Peepcode that you can pick up for $9 (http://peepcode.com/products/sinatra). Looking at this, I think I would have had a much easier time learning Rails if I had started here, many of the concepts and things that it will teach you will segue right into Rails. In other words, if this is giving you trouble, then your goals may not be immediately accessible, and it may be wise to get your feet wet before jumping into the deep end. -Josh --0-1808530948-1265236182=:95744--