This may be the wrong place for this question but i am not sure where to
go.
What is a good linux distro to get started with rails 3? I have given up
on
ubuntu and any related distro since the version of gem isnt high enough
for
rails and its related packages. I cant seem to use Arch since they use
ruby
1.9.1. Is there a distro that has what i need in its package manager so
that
i can be up and running fairly quickly? I am not the best at getting all
the
packages running from scratch, so i rely on package managers but that
seems
to be a loosing battle as well. Any help or recommendations would be
appreciated.
But I very much dislike ubuntu for rails. I tried it before and
everything just did not work out. Too many files were named weirdly and
I just did not want to deal with renaming or symlinking.
I stuck with CentOS 5.5 (also works with Fedora 13) and compiled ruby
1.9.2 from source (preview3, but the RC just came out) and then
downloaded rubygems 1.3.7 and compiled that as well. I never got RVM to
work with it though…
I think you could just ignore the built in package managers and
download and install your gems, rvm and whatever else from github and
the gem package manager. Forget about ubuntu or fedoras packages…
I think you could just ignore the built in package managers and
download and install your gems, rvm and whatever else from github and
the gem package manager. Forget about ubuntu or fedoras packages…
Exactly. At least for Rails 2.x, Ubuntu works quite well. You can
probably get away with installing Ruby through apt-get; then just
download RubyGems yourself and use that to install gems. No problem.