Sorasyn   -  Feb 09, 2014

For being a first time Ruby on Rails programmer; it's definitely not making the ever crucial good first impression. That's even after the hour long journey of installing it and RVM; hitting wall after wall. An absolutely super job they did building a UNIX installer. /Facepalm

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Hawkee  -  Feb 10, 2014

That's my biggest problem with RoR. It's such a beast to install, but once you get it running the development process can go quite fast.

Sorasyn  -  Feb 10, 2014

Yeah I still don't have it installed correctly. I've been trying any way I know how to complete the installation on my drive on the university's Linux servers. I can get RVM, and Ruby 2.1.0 installed but after that it's just a nightmare. The directions tell me I need to run "bundle install" which requires a file by the name of "Gemfile." Problem is I have about 4 of these Gemfiles which supposedly after installing, allows the Ruby installation to use Rails 3 & 4. However none of them install correctly, and don't allow Ruby 2.1.0 to access Rails. It just spits out some HTML gibberish and returns.

I got so frustrated with it earlier I had to take off and go for a drive. Lol.

Hawkee  -  Feb 10, 2014

I haven't dabbled much with RoR, but my primary memory was the gruesome installation. If I recall correctly it took me 2-3 hours to get everything working the way I wanted. Don't give up, it can be done.

Sorasyn  -  Feb 10, 2014

Yeah it's probably something really simple that I'm not doing. That's how it usually goes when something like this comes about. I'll keep trying it regardless, I need it for future assignments. :/

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