Re: [decklin@red-bean.com: Re: Updated VM for May workshop - testing needed]

[Decklin Foster]

Janet writes:

> I'm going to send out the reminder message on Wednesday, and I'll include the link to it.  

Great, I'll merge the website pull request tonight, and put the final
image at the URL linked there. Will be same as RC3.

> It'd be good to revisit using VMs after this workshop.  For intro to ruby, Macs didn't need it at all, and it sounds like Windows don't either.  

I'm not sure what you mean here...? The native install processes for
Windows and OS X were really complicated in different ways and I only
remember one or two people falling back to that (which didn't go very
smoothly). Almost everyone was using the VM. I thought it was a dramatic
improvement.

Maybe you mean using the VM with Vagrant rather than opening VirtualBox
and getting a console? Again, I only recall maybe a couple people having
to do that (Windows only) to work around a broken terminal. If we want
people to do this we should set up a GUI login (so they'd have
gnome-terminal instead of a console). Totally could be done, but would
require some work and a different approach to shared folders (maybe just
having students set them up). And I would want to be sure it was simple
for students who *are* comfortable with their own terminal to turn off
X/GNOME and turn on SSH.

Created an issue for it here:

https://github.com/railsbridge-boston/railsbridge-vm/issues/7

Ccing the list for discussion.

[For the simpler intro-to-ruby material, 1.9 or even 1.8 might have been
workable (so people with Macs could use the Apple-shipped ruby instead
of having to set up a compiler), but for Rails everyone should
definitely be on 2.0.]

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