Morning Caffeine

The time has come to learn Ruby on Rails. I’ve been delaying it for few months now, but my new SitePoint book, Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications just arrived and there are no more excuses left.

Installation
In the book, in second chapter author recommends installing Instant Rails for Windows users. As I already had that installed, I’ve decided to install Ruby and RubyGems separately. As being PHP developer, I got used to install Apache, PHP and MySQL all separately as I like to have complete control over them. Configuring Apache sometimes can be tricky if you forget few settings or if you’d like to keep your server files in different places. Same stands for MySQL. I like to keep all MySQL db files and web server files on D partition of my hard drive, just so I don’t need to think about it when formatting C.

Installation of Ruby, RubyGems and Rails is painfully easy. If you do decide to go with Ruby with Windows installer, installation is just few clicks away.
Installation of RubyGems is as easy. It requires from you just to run

Rails installation can be started with

All done!

Yes, it’s THAT easy. (more info (which is not really more info, because you don't need more!!!) can be found at http://rubyonrails.org)

I'm at 51st page of the book and all I did so far is installed everything I need to get started. I'm inpatient to start coding!!