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Re:Kickstarter: rails.app by ajacksified on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @05:46PM (#3768539)
As a fairly recent OSX and a fairly recent Rails user, I had no trouble learning either.

That is, except for Lion and XCode 4.2/4.3, which caused me about three lost days. 'rvm get head' and 'rvm install 1.9.3-head' fixed that, though.

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Re:Kickstarter: rails.app by ericd on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @05:50PM (#3768554)
I would say that that three lost days getting set up is a large, large problem for Rails, though.
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Re:Kickstarter: rails.app by ajacksified on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @10:56PM (#3769429)
Oh, absolutely - but don't confuse a Rails problem with a Ruby problem. It wasn't Rails causing problems, it was Ruby itself.
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Re:Kickstarter: rails.app by ericd on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:26AM (#3775107)
If I'm getting set up, I really don't distinguish between Rails itself being irritating and one of its dependencies being a PITA. Those dependencies are part of the architecture of Rails, so it gets the blame. It's not like I need foo version of ruby if I'm just doing some quick scripting.
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Re:Kickstarter: rails.app by iamwil on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @06:33PM (#3768701)
That's 3 days you could spend curing cancer. Tongue in cheek aside, I use to rage when I had to spend 3 days doing server admin and configuration. Along comes heroku and dotcloud and it's a godsend.
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