Re:Showoff
by pixeloution on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:58PM
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If you're on osX there's no "setup a ruby system" you type a one line command and then you can use "show". You might have to use the full path to `show` to get it to execute depending on how it installed. You don't need to know anything about ruby -- I've never touched ruby and I was up and running in less then 60 seconds.
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Fair enough. Again, I was just trying to analyze their landing page copy from the point of view of a potential customer. I am not a potential customer.
But for people without any Ruby experience, you don't know that fact ahead of time. All you see is the unknown ruby command. And my impression (as a non-user of ruby) is that it's hard to get going. So a potential customer may see these issues as a hurdle to jump.