Ubunutu looks great when combined with deprec like this:
http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov.
Not sure if that will help with MySQL however.
I like SuSE (mainly for historical reasons) and dislike Redhat (that may
start a religious war, but see below for my "get out of jail free
card"). Debian looks good but I never have had the time to check it
out.
Choosing a distribution is as much a personal choice as a technical one
as everyone has different tastes and opinions. In the end it does not
matter too much, just choose the one that makes you most happy.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Ive had great painless installations with Gentoo.
--
Gentoo++
-- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
-- Lead Rails Evangelist
-- e...@engineyard.com
-- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting
-- (866) 518-YARD (9273)
Thanks,
Sergio Bayona
j-s
On Jan 10, 8:28 pm, "Baldur Gudbjornsson"
Rails isn't going to care what distribution of linux you are running.
It's really just a matter of personal taste and comfort level although
package availability can play a part. I seriously doubt that any of
the major distributions have any issues getting Ruby/Rails up and
running.
If you are new to linux in general, I would most likely say that
Ubuntu is probably the best choice as was already said, with openSUSE
and Fedora being next, and Debian/Gentoo being last. Not that Debian
or Gentoo are bad or anything, just that there is more involved in
running those distributions and I wouldn't recommend them to those new
(or fairly new) to linux.
Chris
On 1/11/07, John-Scott <john.scot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
I fixed this problem by making the ext libraries static (commenting
everything out in ext/Setup). This assumes you are compiling Ruby from
scratch. This is on Ubuntu 6.06 server. I have the Ubuntu readline
packages installed but that didn't seem to help when I originally built
Ruby.
--
Michael Wang
Anyone running FreeBSD 6.2 yet?
Isak
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169891
(read the "Fixing Ubuntu Console readline problem" paragraph)
-- Jean-François.
--
À la renverse.
> Those with strong opinions about particular distros, could you briefly
> elaborate as to why they think is better? (i'd particularly like to
> listen to Ezra's view on Gentoo)
My reasons:
a) Its a fairly minimal distro so you install only what you need.
b) Updates are very fast compared to Debian, RH, Ubuntu, et al.
c) Its very easy to customize packages - the package system is
briiliant.
That would be kind'a hard since it's not out yet ;-) But I will be once
it is released. Not that it should matter much in regard to Rails.
--
Cheers,
- Jacob Atzen
I hope this will work for you.
Are you trying to start a flame war? Here, have some gasoline for that fire:
http://funroll-loops.org/
Actually, the site appears to be down at the moment. Oh, well. You can find
the Google cached page if you care.
--Greg
> and what about gentoo versus debian? where stability and comfortable to
> update (not only one server, but a lot) are important ?
> i think that gentoo is harder than debian to get the same stability,
> what do you think ?
I worked for almost 4.5 years as a systems administrator for an ISP in
New York and I ran Gentoo on almost all of our Unix boxes. Its rock
solid, so I dont know what you mean. And updates are much faster and
easier than any other non-commercial distro out there since Gentoo
packages operate at the source code level (no waiting for binary
package and backporting nonsense - just build it already).
My fellow partner installed on ubuntu on his pc-laptop but that OS came
with a useless default screen resolution (~15" wide) and could not
connect to our open wireless office network and so it had to go (I'll
get him a proper Mac once i get rich!)
I scribbled the process of installation down at -->
http://84.55.110.163/2007/1/8/mephisto-on-openbsd-in-60minutes
work hard, play hard!
love/j =)
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> Hi All,<br><br>I am very new to rails but am a relatively savvy linux user. My question is regards to a good linux distribution that works well with most rails. I am currently running ubuntu which works ok but just ok, there are a few things that could work better. One being the script/console and although I was able to install the mysql binding it was a painful process. So one does anyone know how to fix the script/console issue in ubuntu? or is there anyone out there using other distros which work well with ror.
> <br><br>Thanks,<br>Baldur<br><br>
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our startup went with gentoo at the recommendation of our sysadmin,
and it was such a wonderful user experience that I switched my home
machine from fedora to gentoo too.
martin
Anyway, this page talks about your problem with a solution:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169891
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> I am using ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10, as a development workstation. I managed to solve the mysql issue which was fairly well documented but the console thing I had a harder time locating the issue. But any pointers in regards to those two things would be greatly appreciated, especially the console thing. See errors I get when I try to run it. Any help is be appreciated.
> <br>b<br><br>baldur@baldur-laptop:~/ror_project$ script/console<br>Loading development environment.<br>/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError)<br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10
> <br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `require'<br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load_modules'<br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `each'
> <br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules'<br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup'<br> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start'<br> from /usr/local/bin/irb:13
> <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John-Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:john.scot...@gmail.com">john.scot...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> <br>What exactly were the issues you have had with 'script/console' or<br>MySQL? are you using ubuntu as a development environment or a<br>production server? I've used Ruby/Rails on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) and
> <br>6.10 (Edgy) without any real issues. I've found Ubuntu to be very easy<br>to use, plus the user community is quite large and very helpful for<br>those edge cases when something doesn't 'just work'. But that's not to
> <br>say that it's perfect for everyone. Anyway, let us know what issues<br>you've had and perhaps one of us could help straighten out what issues<br>you're having with ubuntu/ror.<br><br>j-s<br><br>On Jan 10, 8:28 pm, "Baldur Gudbjornsson"
> <br><<a href="mailto:baldur.gudbjorns...@gmail.com">baldur.gudbjorns...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> I am very new to rails but am a relatively savvy linux user. My question is<br>> regards to a good linux distribution that works well with most rails. I am
> <br>> currently running ubuntu which works ok but just ok, there are a few things<br>> that could work better. One being the script/console and although I was able<br>> to install the mysql binding it was a painful process. So one does anyone
> <br>> know how to fix the script/console issue in ubuntu? or is there anyone out<br>> there using other distros which work well with ror.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Baldur<br><br><br>
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