I’ve been poking around Ruby and Rails tutorials after being away from
it since 05. I want to get into developing Rails applications, and I
have plans for 2 of them, but first I need to get up to speed.
So, Rails environment. IR has been discontinued and RubyStack has picked
it up. I did some stuff this week using InstantRails and it worked fine,
I have not yet tried RubyStack.
My question revolves around 2 issues.
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As far as learning goes, does it matter which one? I just picked up
the 2nd Revision of the Agile book and I will be using that. They seem
to install RoR piecemeal in the book and not use either one.
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What about long term development wise? Since IR is discontinued does
it makes sense to go with RS?
Hi Tom,
I have not used either, but hopefully my input might be of some use.
It really depends on what kind of developer you are and your own
personality. I’m a recovering perfectionist, which means I’m
generally Type A and I lean toward being a control freak. I prefer
to do most things myself, so I typically don’t go much for things
like InstantRails (or even Locomotive on the Mac). I don’t really
like to use many plugins either as I’d rather roll my own stuff.
Hmm. Makes me wonder why I use Rails at all…ha ha.
Anyway, I’d say try the lowest level first (a la the book), then only
move up as it makes sense to you.
Peace,
Phillip
Phillip K. wrote:
Anyway, I’d say try the lowest level first (a la the book), then only
move up as it makes sense to you.
Actually the book mentions InstantRails as the first option and suggests
installing it… I think it was different in the first version. I guess I
will go with that now and worry about it later.
Trent B. wrote:
instant rails works great. you can update the rails and gems. it is
easy to use, and just a click to start mongrel too. it comes with an
easy way to modify the database, without getting a program. but, it is
no longer in development. but i still use it. it is a lot easier then
the stack, on windows.
I have to say right now I’m really liking it too - very easy, up and
running in like a minute. How different is the RubyStack? Is IR
something you’d use when building an actual application?
on the ide, NetBeans 6.0 just rules right now. it has great code
completion and you can see your def’s in your controller.
Thanks for the tip - I’m going to try it. I’m using InType right now,
which is light and really nice however doesn’t have any advanced
features so you end up doing more typing than you really need to… but I
hope they keep developing it.
Tom D. wrote:
Phillip K. wrote:
Anyway, I’d say try the lowest level first (a la the book), then only
move up as it makes sense to you.
Actually the book mentions InstantRails as the first option and suggests
installing it… I think it was different in the first version. I guess I
will go with that now and worry about it later.
instant rails works great. you can update the rails and gems. it is
easy to use, and just a click to start mongrel too. it comes with an
easy way to modify the database, without getting a program. but, it is
no longer in development. but i still use it. it is a lot easier then
the stack, on windows.
on the ide, NetBeans 6.0 just rules right now. it has great code
completion and you can see your def’s in your controller.
-t