1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done).
2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`
Simply following your two step instructions on any of my servers would not create a working RoR setup.
- I can't get rubygems to work.
- You've used a Linux package manager to install Ruby haven't you? Don't, it's broken. Uninstall it and re-install from source.
Then follows a discussion about how the person with the problem doesn't want to do that, and the other people telling him fine, suit yourself.
The person with the problem continues to try to solve this problem some other way, but in the end either follows the previous recommendation, or stops messing with Ruby altogether.
Nowadays, Linux package managers offers the option of installing the "full" Ruby distribution, which is great, but I wonder why anyone would ever want to install the partial broken one. I don't even know if the "full" one works. :-/
I've had my problems with rails installations, but they were generally in trying to get specific rails code working- not getting a teaching instance up.
I think there's tremendous value in this kind of site. If someone comes up to you and says "how can I get started with Rails?" now you can just point them to this site and tell them to get in touch when they've finished the tutorials. Then you can help them set up their environment properly ;)
gem install rails; rails new hello_world; rails s
Then I watched the damage on localhost:3000
Rails has been fantastic. I'm a designer — I don't really have a background in programming — but rails has been incredibly accessible. It makes a lot of sense to me.
First, I had to install rvm (Rails wouldn't install with Ubuntu's Ruby packages) which took some time to figure out. Then I tried installing Rails and got some problem related to sqlite3. I then figured out that I had to install the sqlite3-ruby gem. Of course it didn't work. I found out I had to install the libsqlite3-dev package.
The whole process took a good 30-60min.
I'm not trying to sound aggressive or anything, but I think that this type of issue is more related to to using some outdated or excessively complicated guides on the internet that always leave something out, in comparison being hard to get ror up and running.
- Some kind of database: easy
- Editor: easy
- Version control: easy
I guess you have never tried to build LLVM on Windows if you think that's hard ;)
I think that if you can re-skin this and retool it for other themes/languages, you've got an excellent educational tool on your hands.
Good job!
It's neat as hell though.
But this is pretty sweet :)
I would jump on the opportunity to build labs for other languages if they offered an sdk of some sort.
As far as the labs thing goes, this feels like the future of interactive learning.
Also the went WAYYYYYYY overboard with the whole zombies thing. We get it, zombies are trendy these days, please just keep them away from anything learning based.
If you've never touched the Ruby Language before, we
recommend playing through TryRuby.org first.
This is why we can't have nice things.