Web Development with Ruby on Rails

[weave]

Hi All,

I've watched several screencasts and read a whole bunch of tutorials but for some reason... (probably me) I've been unable to work my way through any of the Ruby on Rails tutorials. They all appear to be slanted towards a windows platform and I guess in the transfer of info from one to the other something's gone missing.

Is there a good walk through / tutorial out there that's gears to a fedora platform with apache as the server and mysql as the database ? I've installed everything through yum but I'm lost when it comes to frameworks.


thanks,

[pete_1967]

That Windows centric sounds surprising to me.

Have you checked http://www.rubyonrails.org/ ?

Also try http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...y/l-rubyrails/

[weave]

Hi pete,

Thanks for the suggestions but I've found both to be lacking in respects. What I'm after is using Ruby on Rails with the standard apache & mysql that comes with FC8. Maybe someone out there has seen something or jumped through those hoops and has it working...... hopefully

thanks again,

[sej7278]

hehe i've always thought rails is a bit mac-centric, the way it has its own webserver instead of using apache etc; stinks too much of n00b for my liking.

[weave]

ya....

It's a bit too much microsoft$$$$$$ oriented for myself as well. I quess it's the old story eh...... if it sounds too good to be true ( ie. a super easy web rad environment ) it probably is........ a point and click type programming never has nor never will work in Linux / Unix.


thanks,

[alowe]

Ruby isn't MS centric at all. Most Ruby developers are Mac folks and fairly anti-MS. There are a decent number of Linux tools out there for ROR. www.aptana.com is an Eclipse based IDE that works well. It can be installed as a stand alone plugin. I prefer the stand alone.

Also there is a modrails project to run ROR on apache. http://www.modrails.com/

One of the better books on rails is "The Rails Way" by Obie Fernandez from what I've been told. Planning on picking up a copy as the author is a big part of my local Ruby community. (http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addi.../dp/0321445619)

For tutorials on ROR 2.0 I would check out

http://fairleads.blogspot.com/2008/0...my-series.html

http://darynholmes.wordpress.com/200...t-part-1-of-n/

I'm not sold on ROR yet but have been checking it out for a couple weeks now and find it interesting.

[Reisswolf]

Why not use Python Django? It is better, faster and more Unix-centric. (Although it would be unfair to say that Rails is not sufficiently Unix-centric.)