Seven Resume-Transforming Tutorials For Installing Rails on a Windows Machine
Thinking about exploring Ruby on Rails on a Windows computer, but haven’t taken the plunge because you were afraid installation would turn into a time-sink? Digital Media Minute did a post on Ruby on Rails Development Environment for Windows a while back, but with the growing popularity of Rails, I thought a short list of installation tutorials might be helpful. There should be a tutorial here to get you up and running.
1) Complete with screen shots and a little humor, this tutorial from SuckLessAtRails.com is very easy to follow.
2) Over at wiki.rubyonrails.org there’s a clear, concise walk-through, including installing SQLite and MySQL.
3) Here’s a concise, recent tutorial by Joseph Symon over at Bobcares.com.
4) If positive comments are any indication, this installaton tutorial for Vista users by Michael Wales is very well-done and detailed.
5) Sitepoint has really become a place to find a wide range of outstanding tutorials and screencasts, and not only for noobs. Here’s one for installing ror on Windows by Kevin Yank, and it will cost you only the time it takes to enter your email address.
6) Sam Saffron has a brief tutorial at his site, with a lot of extra reference material for you at the end.
7) If you are an Eclipse user, www.napcs.com has a tutorial by Brian Hogan for creating an IDE for Rails development using Eclipse.
