Tom M. wrote:
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As far as rebooting goes, unless you upgrade the kernel I’d be
surprised if you ever rebooted it.
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– Tom M.
Thanks Tom!
Regarding rebooting, what about restarting the web server. It seems
like I vaguely remember from one of the tutorials I read that you have
to restart the web server at certain points in the development. Don’t
remember if it had to do with making a new table in the database or
after generating a new project or what it was. Perhaps this would
another reason to develop locally, to minimize restarting of the
“production” web server (even though there is nothing particularly hot
on it just yet).
I’m just dreading the day when I get an app working locally on OSX and
then wind up frustrated by differences between local and server when
trying to get it deployed. That’s really the only reason I like the
idea of developing in the same environment as the VPS. Perhaps that is
a molehill that I’m mountainizing.
jp
I would rather cut off one of my arms than go back to a time where
I could not develop without internet connectivity.
Working on your own box is fantastically useful!
So much so that I use SVK (don’t worry about it for now) so that
I can commit changes locally and then later push them up to the
Subversion repository when I’m connected.
Since you’re using several computers for development, when
switching from one to another just do a commit of your project
with an appropriate comment about why you committed it, then
go to the other box and update your working copy. This is another
huge advantage of working with version control, even if you’re
a single person team. 
To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with what you’re suggesting
from a technical standpoint, and I think it complete improves
on the edit-ftp-test experience, but I’m recommending local
development environments on each machine because I find I’m more
productive that way.
As far as where the repository should be, YES, by all means,
put it where it’s most easily accessible to you and to others
in the future, i.e. on your VPS (particularly since it’s backed
up!)
As far as rebooting goes, unless you upgrade the kernel I’d be
surprised if you ever rebooted it.
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– Tom M.
On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Jeff P. wrote:
Thanks Tom!
I’m just dreading the day when I get an app working locally on OSX and
then wind up frustrated by differences between local and server when
trying to get it deployed. That’s really the only reason I like the
idea of developing in the same environment as the VPS. Perhaps
that is
a molehill that I’m mountainizing.
jp
Jeff-
Yeah you are mountanizing. Rails makes it pretty easy to develop
locally and deploy to another OS. I do all my development locally on
osx and then deploy on linux without changing anything more then
database.yml settings. Don’t worry about moving from local to remote.
You will find out thats not going to be that difficult.
Cheers-
-Ezra