From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2011-02-08T16:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Choosing an office suite

I would choose LibreOffice due to recent events since sun's buyout.

As it's been mentioned an office suite is not really the correct tool
for creating a ruby on rails site.

Here is a short list of tool/software to look into:

1) Ubuntu Linux (the laymans linux)
2) rvm Ruby Version Manager
3) vim (my preferred text editor)
4) shell terminal ( once again preference. I like zsh but ubuntu defaults bash)
5) browser (firefox, opera, chrome... take one or use them all)
6) database (sqlite3 for development, postgres for deployment ...
mysql falls into the same area of sun/oracle debacle but it's still a
choice)
7) installing ruby on rails gem

If you need help getting something like this going I would be more
than happy to walk you through the steps to getting the proper
environment for you to experiment and learn on.

Also look in your neighborhood for ruby sigs and meetings. Definitely
the place to network with others and have someone show you directly.

As others have mentioned avoid tools that lock you in, don't run on
everything, are closed and/or attempt to charge you to learn/use.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Hilary Bailey <my77elephants@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to decide which office suite to choose from. The only
> exposure I have had is Microsoft's, but now I have the choice between
> OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. I have had lengthy discussions with
> great individuals from the community regarding writing an education
> software having a database component as its main focus. Briefly, as a
> novice to programming (despite having read a book on Ruby, which
> offered the "sky", but ended-up confusing reality to that of
> programmer's
> dream), I have decided, based on various discussions with the community,
> to familiarize myself with: a) HTTP, b) CSS, c) vim, d)already created
> office suites by the community,and then e) Rails or JRails - as a way of
> deploying such software.
>
> I know that there are many surprises and my writing shows an innocence,
> which will eventually receive a "reality check". But in the meantime,
> based on my line of thinking, can anyone advice me on 1) the difference
> between the suites mentioned above and 2) my plan of action in deploying
> such product.
>
> Thank you Open Source community for your past and continued help.
>
> Hilary
>
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