Re: Installation Questions

[Frederick Cheung]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:39:27 PM UTC+1, FMF Corpsman wrote:

Good Day,

I am attempting to write a program that will convert Tibetan Uchen script to Romanized Wylie script. Through my research I believe Ruby Rails is what I will need to bring this to fruition. I only have a simple laptop running 64 bit applications on Vista Home. I have partitioned my drive so that I can load Ubuntu on the 2nd partition. First question, Based on what I want to accomplished, have I surmised correctly that Ruby Rails is in part what is needed? Can I run Ruby Rails on Ubuntu Desktop as opposed to Server? I read a post here that Colin Law suggests using RVM to install Ruby or Ruby Rails, but at the Ruby download page, it only mentions Ruby Gems. Any clarification would be helpful. When it comes to an editor, it lists many include full IDE editors. I could also use some clarification on what editor is compatible with what direction I am taking.

Rubygems is a package manager for ruby libraries, so you need to install ruby before you can install rubygems. RVM is a great way to install ruby and will in addition install rubygems for you. Once you've got ruby gems you can then install rails.

Ubuntu Desktop works just fine. Editors are quite a personal thing, although at a basic level you are just editing text files, so any editor will work, although some will have features that may make your life easier.

Rails is primarily for writing web applications and (at least that's my first impression) it doesn't sound like you're writing a web application. Ruby itself is a fairly general purpose language and may well be good tool to use.

Fred 

[Colin Law]

On 29 May 2013 18:39, FMF Corpsman <combatfm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Day,
>
> I am attempting to write a program that will convert Tibetan Uchen script to
> Romanized Wylie script. Through my research I believe Ruby Rails is what I
> will need to bring this to fruition. I only have a simple laptop running 64
> bit applications on Vista Home. I have partitioned my drive so that I can
> load Ubuntu on the 2nd partition. First question, Based on what I want to
> accomplished, have I surmised correctly that Ruby Rails is in part what is
> needed? Can I run Ruby Rails on Ubuntu Desktop as opposed to Server? I read
> a post here that Colin Law suggests using RVM to install Ruby or Ruby Rails,
> but at the Ruby download page, it only mentions Ruby Gems. Any clarification
> would be helpful.

Google is very useful when someone mentions something that you do not
already know about.
https://rvm.io/

Is your application a web application? If not then RoR may not be
what you are looking for.

> When it comes to an editor, it lists many include full IDE
> editors. I could also use some clarification on what editor is compatible
> with what direction I am taking.

Use whatever editor you like. I use jEdit. Most do not use an IDE.

Colin

[FMF Corpsman]

I have tried over and over to find how people have created their translators. The one and only clue I found was someone who was working with Ruby Rails. I know there are hundreds of programming languages out there, but I am unable to find a clue to the one I need. I do know I will need a database, but that alone won't get the job done. So I am at a loss at this point. If Ruby isn't my answer, then I am at a standstill.

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:39:27 AM UTC-8, FMF Corpsman wrote:

Good Day,

I am attempting to write a program that will convert Tibetan Uchen script to Romanized Wylie script. Through my research I believe Ruby Rails is what I will need to bring this to fruition. I only have a simple laptop running 64 bit applications on Vista Home. I have partitioned my drive so that I can load Ubuntu on the 2nd partition. First question, Based on what I want to accomplished, have I surmised correctly that Ruby Rails is in part what is needed? Can I run Ruby Rails on Ubuntu Desktop as opposed to Server? I read a post here that Colin Law suggests using RVM to install Ruby or Ruby Rails, but at the Ruby download page, it only mentions Ruby Gems. Any clarification would be helpful. When it comes to an editor, it lists many include full IDE editors. I could also use some clarification on what editor is compatible with what direction I am taking.


Thank you for your time,

Jeff

[Colin Law]

On 29 May 2013 20:58, FMF Corpsman <combatfm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tried over and over to find how people have created their
> translators. The one and only clue I found was someone who was working with
> Ruby Rails. I know there are hundreds of programming languages out there,
> but I am unable to find a clue to the one I need. I do know I will need a
> database, but that alone won't get the job done. So I am at a loss at this
> point. If Ruby isn't my answer, then I am at a standstill.

The first thing to do is write a rough specification for what your
application has to do. Then you can decide on the tools. Ruby is a
programming language, Ruby on Rails is a framework which uses Ruby
(and other tools) to build a web application. If you need a web
application, and particularly if you need a database, then RoR may be
a good option. If it is not a web application then Ruby (without
Rails) may still be an option.

Colin

>
> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:39:27 AM UTC-8, FMF Corpsman wrote:
>>
>> Good Day,
>>
>> I am attempting to write a program that will convert Tibetan Uchen script
>> to Romanized Wylie script. Through my research I believe Ruby Rails is what
>> I will need to bring this to fruition. I only have a simple laptop running
>> 64 bit applications on Vista Home. I have partitioned my drive so that I can
>> load Ubuntu on the 2nd partition. First question, Based on what I want to
>> accomplished, have I surmised correctly that Ruby Rails is in part what is
>> needed? Can I run Ruby Rails on Ubuntu Desktop as opposed to Server? I read
>> a post here that Colin Law suggests using RVM to install Ruby or Ruby Rails,
>> but at the Ruby download page, it only mentions Ruby Gems. Any clarification
>> would be helpful. When it comes to an editor, it lists many include full IDE
>> editors. I could also use some clarification on what editor is compatible
>> with what direction I am taking.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your time,
>>
>> Jeff
>

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[FMF Corpsman]

Thank you everyone for your time and responses. I found a program that I want to imitate and expand on, and it was written in Visual basic and Java. I don't think the forum would like me asking questions concerning those languages on here, so this is where we part. I Thank you again.