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From New Mac to Rails Development in 11 Minutes

by deedubaya on 12/13/21, 1:28 PM with 2 comments

• by johntdaly on 12/13/21, 1:50 PM

  Quite a lot of work that when’t into making that look good. Is ok for beginners. Some comments:

  1) rvm vs rbenv, I’m on the rvm side so I would nope out

  2) db choice, PostgreSQL, yup very popular but I’ve got MongoDB and MariaDB installed and SQLite comes by default so I would nope out here too

  3) overall nice, I think I would recommend it to somebody who wants to start out when I don’t have time to help them set up, did the setup with a friend for the rails alpha 2 weeks ago (with rvm and SQLite). There is a place for something like this to make it easier for noobs to rails

  4) I’ve done this setup often enough, I should have created a script for my setup long time ago and pushed it to github

• by tnorthcutt on 12/13/21, 9:33 PM

  This looks really nice! As a developer who is plenty familiar with other frameworks but not so much Rails, I think it would be nice to have a page/appendix/etc. with some additional info on what all this setup script does.

  I totally get that this is aimed toward mostly people without much programming experience, but perhaps it would also be useful to people who are simply new to rails :)