[ubuntu-za] Ruby on Rails

[Stefano Rivera]

Hi Lee (2011.04.04_19:54:00_+0200)
> There are also many tutorials on the web about installing Rails on
> Ubuntu, and one common thing is just about all of them is telling you
> not to install rubygems with apt-get."

rails is available on Ubuntu, packaged. If you don't need the latest and
greatest, and want a stable version for production, it may be a good
choice.

If you do, you'll probably want to install large chunks of your ruby
stack from source, not from the Ubuntu archive, as that's how Ruby
people expect one to work.

Here's a perspective on the issue from the Debian Developer who used to
maintain many Ruby packages for Debian.
http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=617
(IIRC, He's still involved, just less so).

> My suggestion for a production Rails server for someone who doesn't
> know what they are doing is don't do it."

I think that's a reasonable response. It's not going to be something
that's trivial to manage in production, if you are new to it. However
there's one good way to learn.... :)

Personally, I'm a Python person, and would use Django instead of RoR.

SR

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