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Development Tools Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing the Treehouse VM on Mac

Posted by Evan N
Evan N
5,097 Points

VM - Best options

So I did a search on Vagrant and noticed several other threads on StackOverflow making mention of Docker. Being completely new to both Vagrant and Docker I wanted to know if one is better for the job instead of the suggested Vagrant + VirtualBox combo for maintaining environments.

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

Honestly I probably wouldnt even use a vm. for rails development I prefer to develop in the cloud using cloud 9 instead of using a vm.

I find it less clunky and less error prone. its very easy to get started as well. Its nice to be able have the same development environment regardless of where I am or which machine I am using

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

+1 on Cloud9, and a few more worth mentioning.

Justin Green
Justin Green
16,430 Points
Justin Green
Justin Green
16,430 Points

Thanks for sharing these options!