I’ve been using Ruby on Rails for about five years now, and I can’t actually remember my life before it at this point. As much as I love Ruby on Rails, I hate setting it up. Okay, HATE is a pretty stiff word…let’s say “really, really, REALLY dislike”.
However, the last couple of times that I’ve had to configure machines, I’ve kept a really good running log of what I did, and I feel pretty confident that this little recipe will let me keep the rest of my hair.
At my day job we’re currently redesigning our long suffering website using Ruby on Rails. The fun started back in October when a small team of mine started looking at a couple of different technologies including PHP with Cake, Django, and Ruby on Rails. After a really brief look at other stuff (a day or so) we went with Ruby on Rails.
To my friends who aren’t web nerds, I apologize, this is probably going to be boring for you, to those of you who are interested in seeing how I tend to make decisions (quickly and full steam ahead), this might be interesting.