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LinRails — Ruby On Rails For Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the be-the-first-on-your-block dept.

foobarf00 writes "LinRails is a binary package that includes Ruby-1.8.6, Rubygems-0.9.4, Rails 1.2.3, Mongrel 1.0.1, MySQL-5.0.41, ncurses-5.6, OpenSSL-0.9.8e, and zlib-1.2.3. Its goal is to make it easy to get a Ruby on Rails development environment running in no time. This initial 0.1 release doesn't have a Web server in the package; opinions are solicited as to which to include."

2 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why MySQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BSD is hardly free, it's just available. Like the difference between a hooker and a girlfriend.

  2. Re:Aptitude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are better because when you've found your .exe, you're done. Downloading and installing are trivial steps.
    Great, so you download a .exe from some random website. You have no idea what's in it so you constantly run the risk of getting more spyware/adware/crap installed.

    As long as the software you need is in your repository, things are easy. Whenever they are not, things become needlessly complicated. From a usability view, it is much easier to just download an .exe and be done with it.
    Locate package foo. Download it, ensure dependencies are met and install with dpkg -i. Alternatively download the source tarball and run ./configure && make && sudo make install. What's hard about that?

    I know this is not particular to Aptitude or to package managers in general, but is about the whole software installation school of thought that lives in the *nix world. But I think it is old fashioned and is only holding Linux back.
    That's funny, most people I know think downloading .exe files and clicking through an installer is old fashioned.