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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Basics Installing Ruby

James demby
James demby
10,296 Points
Posted by James demby
James demby
10,296 Points

If using the VM do I need to install ruby? I did vagrant ssh and within the vm did "ruby -v" it showed me a version.

If it shows me one I guess I am okay as long as I am ssh'ed into that VM right?

James demby
James demby
10,296 Points
James demby
James demby
10,296 Points

Based on what I said above, I do not need to do anything in this video right?

3 Answers

Ronald Jackson
Ronald Jackson
9,229 Points

Hi James -

The VM has everything pre-installed, so you should be good to go.

I used to use the treehouse VM on a Windows laptop, but I migrated to a linux machine, because of problems with the VM. I experienced connection and lag issues when using the VM. Also, I ran into problems installing a gem. The system would not install the gem. After I natively install my Rails/Ruby development environment on Linux everything works great. I should have gone the Linux route in the beginning! That was my experience. The VM may work just fine for you. I just thought I'd share what I went through trying to use the VM on my Windows box.

Best of luck!

Ronald

James demby
James demby
10,296 Points
James demby
James demby
10,296 Points

Thanks Ronald,

I think I ran into that gem issue as well. My todo (odot) app work is stuck at

"Could not fetch specs from http://rubygems.org/"

When you say you migrated to a Linux machine, do you mean a new computer or do you boot up in a different environment. I do not have any experience with Linux.

Should I just stop trying to do this Ruby track until I can get away from Windows?

Ronald Jackson
Ronald Jackson
9,229 Points
Ronald Jackson
Ronald Jackson
9,229 Points

James, I neglected to answer one part of your question. You also asked if I ran my Rails environment on a new computer or via dual boot. I dual boot my system so I can use Linux Ubuntu for development and Windows when I need it.

Ronald