This is my first post and I hope it's appropriate for the site. My son admires HN and recommended I ask for help here. I'm an "old" CS guy (graduated back in the 80's) and have NOT kept my skills up-to-date as my career led me from development to mostly sysad stuff. So for the last few years, I've had this web site idea and spent the last year designing it while trying to learn Ruby on Rails (using Mark Hartl's tutorial). Setting up a Linux VDI and getting the environment right is driving me crazy. It's always one problem after another. I'm normally a very persistant guy but Hartl's recommended problem solving algorithm (google it) doesn't always work. I'm at the point where I'll do anything just to get this project off the ground. Any ideas or suggestions? I'd pay someone to help me but I don't know where to find such a person.
