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Randall Larson
1,164 PointsRuby on Rails - Linux Idea
I am new to Team Tree House and if it has not been tossed around already, it would be nice to see some support for Linux as well. For example, when I was following the Ruby tutorials, I would find myself pausing the video and doing research to find the Linux equivalent to what ever we were trying to accomplish. I am not saying that videos need to made, but simple easy-to-follows included with videos would be nice. I would even be willing to help out with this.
3 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsOut of curiosity, what things work on OS X that don't work on Linux. Also what flavor of Linux are you using? Ubuntu?
Randall Larson
1,164 PointsThe whole install process. Since there is no install package for Linux on http://www.railsinstaller.org, I had to go out and Google the correct process. I came to learn if you just install RVM, RVM will install everything else for you. Another problem I am having is the version of rails that RVM installs by default, which is version 4.x. I saw somewhere out on the forms that the course uses rails version 3.1.2,, if I recall correctly. I am still working out how to tell RVM to install that specific version.
I am using Fedora 19 LXDE.
Randall Larson
1,164 PointsTo install RVM on Linux:
$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
$ echo "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~./bash.rc
James Barnett
39,199 PointsFor installing on Linux you can also use Rails Ready
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/joshfng/railsready/master/railsready.sh && bash
Randall Larson
1,164 PointsSomething like this would be nice to add to the lessons
James Barnett
39,199 PointsTagging Jason Seifer & Jim Hoskins on adding a teacher's note regarding installing rails on Linux.
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherThanks James Barnett. We don't have any linux documentation at the moment but we'll have a look at adding that in the future.