What is the best way to set up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu?

Ruby On Rails Development

There are number of possible ways to set up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Ubuntu, but you must wisely select the best one for your work requirement. Take the easy way out and install a pre-configured environment from Bitnami. With our Ruby on Rails (RoR) development services we provide the best way to set up a Ruby on Rails development environment and security related to it.

The best way to set up a Ruby on Rails development environment
1.    Bitnami have native installers, VMware virtual appliances or they will host it for you in the cloud if you prefer. The first two are completely free.

2.    Many developers prefer Vagrant to set up any new Rails environment going forward. It consists of the following steps:

•    Step 1: Install VirtualBox
•    Step 2: Install any version of Ruby (selectively the best with RVM)
•    Step 3: Gem install Vagrant.

Then you can use a pre-configured box such as EY’s. Instead, you can provision your own VirtualBox by creating a Chef recipe and use that for future development environments as well. Between EY, 37 signals, and the opscode cookbooks you should be able to find everything that you need.

3.    It is ironic how the “web framework that is optimized for programmer’s happiness and sustainable productivity” isn’t optimized for installations. Everything starts with an installation. The fastest implies to use of Window machine and install RailInstaller. The Bitnami machine use Ubuntu 10.10 and has two options:

•    RubyStack 2.2-2 (Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.3.11)
•    RubyStack 2.3-0 dev (Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3)

4.    Once you perform what was asked at the first time you are running Bitnami machine you will enter in the command mode, no graphical interface to run. You can also give it a try to Virtual machine. That works fairly well.

5.    You can even start learning and writing codes using some tutorials instead of figuring a long time just about the installations. That is not a good way to get more adopters in ROR’s camp, especially those who would want to switch from Windows camp.

You can consider the above possible ways that are better to follow to set up a Ruby on Rails development environment. For any other queries related to ROR development and security, you can contact us at our company’s website Laitkor.com. our expert team panel will assist all your queries.

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