Yeah, I was interested in familiarizing myself with Sinatra but without gems working I guess I’ll… uh… play with Python/Ruby and see which I like more until I can afford a Macbook? I feel like it’s a little ridiculous that web programming is so limited on Windows. I must be missing something?
For some reason the whole Web thing had historically much more traction in Unix family OSes. Windows has to do extra work to make it look to the server programs as if they’re running on something Unix-like. Like making its non-Unix paths make sense to programs that are mostly coded with Unix in mind.
So what kind of error messages are you getting when you run gem commands?
″ installing to ~./gem /var/lib/gems/1.8 and /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren’t both writeable ” and since /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin isn’t in my PATH gem executables won’t run.
I tried doing what it says here to no avail; it did nothing as far as I can tell. I’m not sure if this is a VM problem or an Ubuntu problem.
We’d need to go to a real-time convo to get anywhere with this, I think. I’m about to have dinner now but I can swing by the LW IRC channel later if that suits you, PM me in that case.
I got gems and therefore Sinatra working. :) I also think I got Rails 3 working but I haven’t tried messing with it yet… Everything seems really spotty; the ‘heroku’ command worked but then it stopped existing so I reinstalled it… Did I just install it in two different places or something? Or did I need to ‘load’ it somehow? This all seems kind of magical in a bad way. Oh well. I’ll take your advice and stick to Sinatra for now. Thanks!
It helps that Ruby is installed on Macs out of the box :)
Being able to get gems is kind of a big deal in Ruby, but I as I said above you don’t need the big guns like Rails yet.
Yeah, I was interested in familiarizing myself with Sinatra but without gems working I guess I’ll… uh… play with Python/Ruby and see which I like more until I can afford a Macbook? I feel like it’s a little ridiculous that web programming is so limited on Windows. I must be missing something?
For some reason the whole Web thing had historically much more traction in Unix family OSes. Windows has to do extra work to make it look to the server programs as if they’re running on something Unix-like. Like making its non-Unix paths make sense to programs that are mostly coded with Unix in mind.
So what kind of error messages are you getting when you run gem commands?
″ installing to ~./gem /var/lib/gems/1.8 and /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren’t both writeable ” and since /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin isn’t in my PATH gem executables won’t run.
I tried doing what it says here to no avail; it did nothing as far as I can tell. I’m not sure if this is a VM problem or an Ubuntu problem.
We’d need to go to a real-time convo to get anywhere with this, I think. I’m about to have dinner now but I can swing by the LW IRC channel later if that suits you, PM me in that case.
I got gems and therefore Sinatra working. :) I also think I got Rails 3 working but I haven’t tried messing with it yet… Everything seems really spotty; the ‘heroku’ command worked but then it stopped existing so I reinstalled it… Did I just install it in two different places or something? Or did I need to ‘load’ it somehow? This all seems kind of magical in a bad way. Oh well. I’ll take your advice and stick to Sinatra for now. Thanks!