InstantRails: First Impression
So on a lark, I installed InstantRails last night to see what all the hubbub was about. I grabbed the latest (v2.0) and set to following some getting started steps from a book.
Unfortunately, it seems that things aren’t quite as easy as just downloading and getting started. Just trying to start up a sample/demo site responded with a bunch of errors … so I ended up having to do a bunch of updates to the environment. These are the commands I had to run to get to a point that I could run “rails demo”
gem update rails –include-depencies
gem install activerecord
gem install rake
gem install actionpack
gem install actionmailer
gem install activeresource
gem update –system
I mean, it was ultimately not too bad, but at the same time, not a great first impression. So far, lots of the same concepts that I’ve gotten used to in ASP.NET MVC seem like they found their roots in RoR … so it’s good to see them in their original context.
Dan Said,
April 29, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
I’m sitting here following the Agile Web Dev for Rails book, updated Rails like they said, and ran into errors after even trying to check “rails -v” and using “rake”.
ended up just running “gem update” and updating all the gems. seems to work now, but wish i knew about just those gems before i sat here an hour on the slow school connection.