[Rails] Re: Learning Rails - Advice for development environment

Yes, it seems that Linux's (Ubuntu in my case) battery management is not as good as that of Windows 7.

I am running 12.04 and W7 as alternative OS on a Dell XPS. As an old Unix developer I use emacs on Ubuntu (and xemacs  on W7) as editor. It has nice modes for a lot of programming languages. Debug facilities of RoR are very nice, so why an IDE? rbenv for different versions of Ruby and Rails.

Regards

On Monday, 18 March 2013 20:46:31 UTC+1, Michael Armistead wrote:

Hello,

I have been learning Rails for several weeks now. I am working through Michael Hartl's tutorial and other various things. My question is basically regarding what type of environment to do my development in. First, some background:

I have used different linux distros on and off throughout the years, so it was easy and familiar for me to set up my desktop computer with Mint and get rvm/rails etc installed and working correctly. No issues there.

However, I went out and bought a laptop this last weekend; I have never installed any linux variant on a laptop, so when I did it was startling to find out how incredibly terrible the battery life / power management functions were. I was getting ~2 hours of life just doing simple web browsing. After spending an afternoon tweaking everything (using powertop, thinkfan etc), I was able to increase that marginally.

Then, I had someone recommend that I use win7 as my host OS, and then use a VM for rails development. While doing some research, I came across Vagrant. I got it set up and installed using one of the boxes made for rails development, however I have not started using it yet. I guess the idea is still quite fresh regarding workflow. If I was using a standard VM with ubuntu or whatever, I would boot it up and do my work inside just as if it was the host OS. When it comes to Vagrant, I am a little more confused.

Am I supposed to start my headless vagrant box, start all my services / rails server etc inside, but then have Sublime Text 2 on my host OS - and work out of the shared directory while just performing tests inside of the VM?

I use Guard / Spork on my desktop - how do I set this up within Vagrant? I have read that some people have issues with it.

Am I going to run into any problems down the line running windows as my OS for coding / the VM for testing and server?

Well, I am rambling. This whole idea is just very fresh for me, so I am just looking for any feedback possible. I want to get my development environment set up as fast (but as stable) as possible, so I can get back to learning more rails!

Thanks everyone,

Michael

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