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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing the Treehouse VM on Windows

Eivind Jonassen
Eivind Jonassen
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Posted by Eivind Jonassen
Eivind Jonassen
5,994 Points

Rails Development - Run course through Ubuntu?

After stumbling around and finally managing to install Ruby, Rails VirtualBox, Vagrant and Cmder I have gotten to the stage where it tells me to go to vm.teamtreehouse.com and download the package there. It says that it includes Ubuntu. I already got Ubuntu installed on my computer as a seperate OS. Is it recommended that I just install Ruby, Rails ,Node.js etc on Ubuntu and do the course from there?

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Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
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Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points

It's a virtual machine of Ubuntu with most of the right packages already installed on it. If you want to use Vagrant which is the current recommended method for Ruby/Rails development environment you need it, no matter what your host operating system is. Alternatively you could install everything you need natively and not use Vagrant. It's one or the other, your choice.

Eivind Jonassen
Eivind Jonassen
5,994 Points
Eivind Jonassen
Eivind Jonassen
5,994 Points

Ok, then I think I'll be going through Windows. Thanks for your opinion :)

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I would advise against Windows in the long run if you want to get into Rails development seriously ;). You will get more errors than Linux and Mac users and lots of stuff from the videos simply won't run.

Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points

Not if using Vagrant as Ruby isn't actually running on Windows.