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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Windows

Posted by Logan Eppley
Logan Eppley
Courses Plus Student 26,697 Points

Ruby On Rails Install

I have followed the instructions to the T.

Do I need to use sqlite or sqlite3? There are two different set of instructions in this tutorial.

JoJo KoKo
JoJo KoKo
4,712 Points

I'd recommend using sqlite3 since it does a better job. If you're on a mac, install something called homebrew and install applications easily. (http://brew.sh/)

e.g. brew install sqlite

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james conigliaro
james conigliaro
3,502 Points
james conigliaro
james conigliaro
3,502 Points

you can use other databases, SQLite is just the go to. but in production you should switch your DB to MySQL or PostgreSQL. depending on your needs, and hosting provider. PostgreSQL is an obvious choice if you want to host on heroku.