I currently work in a LAMP environment and use XAMPP to setup my dev environment in Windows. Are there similar installers that package all of the essential and commonly-used Ruby development tools?
BitNami's RubyStack might be what you are looking for. It includes, in one simple installer, Ruby, Rails, Apache and MySQL. Available for Windows and other platforms.
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Of course I know howto install RVM and maintain multiple versions that way, and since I'm a developer I have all the requirements on my own macs (things like xcode etc). Everything is working fine on my own machines.
But how should I distribute my nifty scripts to other mac-users that only have the default 1.8.7 version installed?
I want them to upgrade to 1.9 but I can't expect them to run shell-scripts, rvm (with all its external requirements) etc to be able to run my short 30-line scripts?
Is there a shortcut/tool available so I can get them to upgrade to Ruby 1.9?
Instead of forcing your users to upgrade Ruby, you could package your script into a standalone executable - see SO question on packaging Ruby scripts into Mac OS X applications
There are a few options for automatically setting up development environments.
Thoughtbot's laptop: Laptop is a shell script that turns your Mac OS X laptop into an awesome development machine.
Github's boxen: Automate the pain out of your development environment. Boxen installs your dependencies so you can focus on getting things done.
Pivotal Lab's Workstation: A cookbook of recipes for an OSX workstation.
Thoughtbot's laptop focuses on getting a well-chosen standard set of tools to work on your Mac (you can see which ones in the script).
Boxen seems to be more for teams trying to build their own replicable custom development environment.
I apologize in advance for the stupidity of this question, but I am confused as h#&! and not even sure what to ask anymore.
For my math thesis - i.e., I am not a programmer - I have to write C code which uses the CVODE library, which is part of SUNDIALS (do you need all that detail?). But I can't work directly on the Gentoo Linux cluster where the proram will ultimately run.
According to the SUNDIALS' website, CVODE has very rarely been compiled and used in a native Windows environment, but it has been used using Cygwin. So I want to set up a C programming environment, including an IDE (especially a debugger), on my Windows PC, using Cygwin.
I have installed and executed the basic Cygwin (plus a package for nano editor) on my 64-bit Windows PC. I want to use Eclipse IDE, which is available for Linux and Windows, and can really only be used in a graphical interface (I think). I think I should set Eclipse up next (and then CVODE after that). That's what I'm trying to do now.
My basic question is how do I setup Eclipse to work with Cygwin? What Cygwin packages do I need to run Eclipse?
From the docs, I see that Cygwin has a server (Cygserver), but does not have a graphical interface. Or, it might have a graphical interface called Cygwin/X. Do I setup Eclipse in Windows to communicate with Cygserver, then do my work in Windows, but compilations and so forth would take place in the Cygserver? Or, do I install Cygwin/X and use a Linux version of Eclipse which, hopefully, works with Cygwin/X? If both are possible options, which is easier (I'm guessing the latter).
Cygwin is nice but I've run into issues now and then with it. I would recommend that you download Virtualbox or some similar VM software and install the same Linux that is there on your production cluster inside it. Then you'll have an environment on your development machine which matches the production one.
Now, install eclipse (and anything else you want) inside the VM and you can develop the software there smoothly without worrying about tangential issues like cygwin and the rest.
I have a pc running windows but I want to use a linux server. Is there a way for me to develop my website on my computer before I rent space on a server? Also its probably important to note that I have no linux experience. Should I just stick with wamp?
Unless you specifically and purposely use .NET features in your PHP Application, then an application developed in WAMP will work fine on a LAMP Server as long as you have included all the same PHP plugins.
PHP is independent from Linux or Windows. 99.9% of the time you have to knowingly use features from the host OS.
You should try ubuntu in a virtualbox, there are lots of well written guides that'll get you up and running.
For best performance, use coLinux. Install a linux distro like ubuntu (easier for beginners) and you should be ok.
Yes. I have developed and maintained a website like this before. My development environment was WAMP and the server was a LAMP shared server. Shouldn't be a problem till your site is using fairly basic libraries and they are available both for windows/linux.
However as others mentioned, its wiser to have the development environment as close possible to the production environment. You don't hit any surprises that way. And hey its not difficult and involves no cost:
You can use dual boot to have linux as other operating system.
Depending on your machine, you can just install VirtualBox and install a Linux VM.
I'm a rails developer and I always programmed on linux environment using Netbeans and RVM.
I would like to try a migration on windows using the IDE rubymine that I've already downloaded. Is there any tutorial or instructions to set up the environment for people like me that are approaching on Windows in Rails for the very first time? (installing ruby the gems etc ? ).
There's a section on Windows instalation in the excellent Rails Tutorial
I also found this blog entry that walks you the process step-by-step
When installing on Windows myself I used this video tutorial from Tekpub, but you'll need to pay to access it.
I recommend you http://rubyinstaller.org/ or http://www.railsinstaller.org/
I did it on my machine and everything works fine, you can add later pik (a multi ruby manager)
I want to make a development server for Ruby. (I have done this for IIS and a LAMP set up, but am by no means proficient at it.) What will I need besides the actual server (which I already have)? And also any security issues? I know I could dev locally on my machine, but don't want to do that.
First off when doing ruby development the first thing to know is that it works best in a unix like environment, so mac os x, linux, solaris, bsd, etc...
Ruby libraries are distributed and packaged as gems. So you'll want to install ruby and install rubygems. Then from there on you use the gem command for installing ruby libraries.
I'm going to assume you're talking about doing web development with either ruby on rails 2.x or Merb 1.x. The two frameworks are merging in the next release and it'll be called Rails 3.0. So the answer here works for either one. I'm going to say Rails, but i mean Rails/Merb.
Rails development is done locally on your machine. So you'll need to install ruby and all the libraries you need locally. I know many people who use Windows end up using virtualization and running a linux environment for rails within their desktop windows box.
In development most people use an application server, Mongrel. In production the current standard is to use Apache 2 and Passenger.
With rails you're going to want to use source control. Most people today use git in the rails community, but it's possible to use subversion, perforce, or many other SCM's. To get your application from your source control to your staging and production systems, the rails community created an application called Capistrano. It handles deployments. You setup your server information, ssh keys, define access, and then you can release your application with a single command.
cap deploy
It's a pretty good system. Back several years ago now when i was working on odeo.com we had people using windows, linux, and mac's all for development with production deploys to debian linux. It wasn't intentional that our application be cross platform, it just worked out that way because we had people who wanted to add to it, including designers and biz types, who were on windows.
I highly recommend you check out http://guides.rubyonrails.com for more information.