Rails One Click
Dev tools
environment installer
SHOW HN2012
92points
68comments
#244of 1,677 in 2012
Top 15%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 12 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 8 againstIdea: 3 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Welcome for beginners and useful for teaching
From 3 comments
Love it. Ideas like this make the first step that much more welcoming.
rickdale on HNThis should hopefully help in eradicating "Chapter One: Installing Rails" from most Ruby on Rails books. Perhaps one of the the most frustrating chapters that someone beginning…
raghavb on HNThis is great. Have just been installing rails on 3 friends macs, cuz' I'm working on a project with them - Meer.li - and it is such a terrible experience each time. Looking…
holgersindbaek on HN
Objections
Software not ready yet
From 2 comments
I think you need the money to get past "This software is not ready! I'm still working out some major problems."
1123581321 on HNNo I'll need time for that. This is just 4 hours of work. I posted it now because I'll need help from the community as it evolves (especially testing)
oscardelben on HN
Requests
Sandbox nginx and unicorn too
From 2 comments
This looks like a nice idea, but I'm echoing others in wondering why this is necessary. Tools like RVM make it fairly trivial to maintain distinct versions of rails, associated…
nachteilig on HNI agree. This seems at this time to focus on the already easy to install/configure parts (a Ruby build and Rails gem) and not the harder items (like Nginx).
jeebus on HN
Questions
Why is this needed given existing tools
From 2 comments
This looks like a nice idea, but I'm echoing others in wondering why this is necessary. Tools like RVM make it fairly trivial to maintain distinct versions of rails, associated…
nachteilig on HNFor Rails, "sudo gem update --system; sudo gem install rails" is not sufficient ?
traxtech on HN
Alternatives named
RVM
From 2 comments
I prefer to use rvm :) ``` curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable source ~/.bash_profile rvm install 1.9.3 gem install rails ```
sil3ntmac on HNThis looks like a nice idea, but I'm echoing others in wondering why this is necessary. Tools like RVM make it fairly trivial to maintain distinct versions of rails, associated…
nachteilig on HN
rbenv
From 2 comments
Also: ``` brew install rbenv brew install ruby-build ruby-build --definitions rbenv install 1.9.3-p125 ``` Not trying to debate RVM, which I never had a problem with, just…
tdfx on HNSeems like I should post my famous 5 lines again: 1. Install XCode and homebrew 2. sudo brew install {postgresql,rbenv,ruby-build} 3. Close terminal. Open terminal. 4. mkdir proj…
moe on HN
RailCar
From 1 comment
Have you seen Jeremy McAnally's Railcar[1]? It might be worth a look since there seems to be some overlap in goals (even if maybe not in how you get there). Edit: Here's a link…
telemachos on HN
BitNami RubyStack
From 1 comment
How would this compare to say the BitNami RubyStack, I've been using this to keep multiple Rails version (2.x and 3.x) running on Lion: http://bitnami.org
fieldforceapp on HN
JewelryBox
From 1 comment
rvm or JewelryBox should be fine to me under Mac OS x
jacktang on HN