To create a Ruby on Rails project, there are certain steps to work through. Just as you would with any other web development framework. Since I am moving from PHP to Ruby on Rails, I decided to see how starting a new project compares.
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Jan 12
How to Install or Upgrade Ruby With RVM
RVM is great for managing Ruby because OS X still has Ruby version 1.8.7 as the default. It occurred to me that I would still want to be able to upgrade Ruby that I have installed. So after some research, I worked out a sequence that seems to work. We can also upgrade RVM itself at the same time.
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Jan 12
How to Set Up Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu
In this tutorial I’ll explain How to Set Up Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu. It can can be attempted in a couple of ways. I have tried them all at one time or another, and generally always ran into problems. So I decided to try compiling everything to see how that worked. I can report that it worked, with a few hoops to jump through.
The stable version of Ruby has moved up to version 1.9.3, and Rails is currently at version 3.1.1 at the time of writing. Getting everything set up to work on Ubuntu involves some compiling from source, and some trouble shooting, but it is possible. I explain how I got it working below.
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Jan 12
Learning Ruby and Rails: a Journey
Hi there, thanks for dropping by. The purpose of this site is to track my journey from PHP to Ruby and Rails. While it is a personal journey, I know that many people are going through (or have been through) the same process. I’ll provide a site overview in a bit more detail below.