[Rails] Re: Unable to Start with Rails.

On Nov 25, 9:24 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think those here are *unfriendly* to those using windows, just
> that most here have not got the experience to answer the questions,
> and in some cases (such as myself) started with windows and then moved
> to Linux and found that life became much easier.  It is possible
> though that with the development of railsinstaller life on windows is
> now ok.
>

By "unfriendly" I mean that every single problem users have and ask
question about it the answer is "install VirtualBox and Linux".

With those answers people assume that:

1) The have the control on their environment to do these type of
installations (lot of user don't have administrative privileges)
2) Users do have Linux/bash/git/gcc/apt-get/portage/whatever previous
experience

Problem is, most of the time these assumptions do not apply and
increase the frustration of newcomers/newbies that want to try out
this thing called "Rails"

So for those who can't comply with these two assumptions the message
is "you're not cool enough for this".

Projects like RailsInstaller and RubyInstaller exist to help out
better integration and transition from Windows to Linux environments,
but that only will happen when users feel comfortable with the newer
tool.

But I understand not everybody sees this like this.

--
Luis Lavena

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