Why I started liking the Rails community
I started my new job today. I’ll be working mostly on Rails projects. The department had a snafu of some sort getting my laptop. I told them I could bring in mine. Today I started working on the project. I got a copy of the code from another developer (because I wasn’t allowed on their network yet). They printed out a few bug reports for me to get started with.
I worked on my MacBook Pro (OS X) using TextMate, iTerm, SQLite and FireFox.
The other developer worked on his Lenovo ThinkPad (Windows XP) using NotePad++, InstantRails, MySQL and Internet Explorer.
We finished the day by reviewing the code on his IBM PC. The project will eventually be deployed to a WebSphere server in a JRuby environment with an Oracle database.
It all just worked. Try doing the same thing with an ASP.NET website.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Honestly, I’d be a little scared about using those different dev environments knowing that the production environment is JRuby + WebSphere + Oracle.
Hopefully, there are no strange deployment glitches.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:36 am
@roberto - considering the deployment is simply a WAR, the dev environments are almost irrelevant. And considering the project is Rails, the codebase is written the same regardless of production environments. And to somewhat elaborate my point, today I was asked to start developing on a company laptop. Lenovo T43 with XP. Took me 6 hours to get it finally configured to run the Rails app.