What Laptop/Desktop Best for Ruby on Rails?
What laptop or desktop is best for RoR development?
Although I can write Rails from scratch on Windows without major problems, I am having a heck of a time working with pre-written RoR apps on Windows. I am almost ready to (-gasp!-) spend money! Could you give me your recommendations?
Thanks very much!
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Granf on Oct 07, 2007
get yourself an iMac '08 and get Locomotive.
soprano on Oct 07, 2007
Get an iMac or MacBook Pro.
Granf on Oct 07, 2007
or tower mac pro w/intel xeon quad core and 3 terrabyte hard disc w/26 gigs of ram. :)
soprano on Oct 07, 2007
And I would (personally) recommend following Dan Benjamin's Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X tutorial to install Rails.
ZsaZsa on Oct 08, 2007
Thanks for the great advice. Those macs are pricey.
a2 on Oct 08, 2007
They offer student discounts (only about 10%) and there are corporate discounts (again around 10%) for some companies. It's worth checking out.
I took a $25 class at my local community college to get a new mac and adobe suite at the student discounts saving me hundreds.
ZsaZsa on Oct 08, 2007
a2 that is a great idea. I could use a Ruby or a art course, either one. All my work has been done on Macromedia FreeHand and Fireworks in the past.
Thanks so much everyone!
seanhussey on Oct 08, 2007
The Macs are expensive inly becase all of the stuff you'd put into a PC is already included in a Mac--there's no option. Google around for Mac vs. PC pricing and you'll see a couple of (unscientific, but reproducable) articles on how, feature for feature, the MacBooks and MacBook Pros are actually cheaper.
And then once you get that Mac, shell out the cash for TextMate. :)
conny2007 on Oct 08, 2007
Well, they are pricey. But, I don't wanna miss my MacBook Pro ;D Since I have one - beside my PC - I can separate Design Software from my audio stuff and everything works just fine!
seanhussey on Oct 08, 2007
And, of course, you can run Windows on Macs now. If you don't like OSX, you've got a pretty fancy Windows machine. :)
soprano on Oct 08, 2007
Mac minis are not too expensive.
ZsaZsa on Oct 08, 2007
I like Macs, they are beautiful, and well worth the money. I wouldn't mess them up with Windows! I promise!
braindeaf on Nov 23, 2007
I use a dirt cheap Acer with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, really really easy set up.