{"id":14930,"date":"2016-10-17T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/?p=14930"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:08:38","slug":"learning-ruby-rails-nitrous-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/ruby\/learning-ruby-rails-nitrous-io\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Ruby on Rails with Nitrous.io"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been programming a long time. I\u2019ve written professional applications in Java, PHP, C#,ASP.NET<\/span>, C++, and Silverlight. I\u2019ve seen a lot of fads, and I\u2019ve seen a lot of tools for programming come and go. My point is I think I know a pretty good thing when I see it, and Nitrous<\/a> is definitely one of those things. I get it and I\u00a0love<\/em> it! So here\u2019s what happened.
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Recently I set out to learn Ruby on Rails. This is something I\u2019d been wanting to do but never seemed to find the time. RoR has a strong following and it goes with my desire to learn as many languages and frameworks for web development as I can (watch for\u00a0future articles on my experiences learning Flask<\/a> and Django<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Installing Ruby and\u00a0Rails is Painful<\/h2>\n

As any novice of this powerful web framework will tell you, the process of installing Ruby and Rails is painful<\/em>! It\u2019s not really hard but it\u2019s time-consuming. Now I know there are some purists who will arguably insist in order to understand the framework better you should\u00a0learn how to install and set it up. Okay, makes sense maybe but if that were true many hours would not have been spent on projects like the RailsInstaller<\/a> or on programs to maintain theses installations, such as\u00a0rbenv<\/a> and\u00a0RVM<\/a> (Ruby Version Manager). That\u2019s not to say there aren\u2019t places you can\u2019t get really good guidance installing Ruby and Rails. Here are a couple of my favorites:<\/p>\n