Re:Kickstarter: rails.app
by lukeholder on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @09:03PM
(#3769142)
I think you are missing the reason for the project.
In the php world, MAMP on osx is one of the reasons so many newbie jump into php. a simple app, abstracting away apache, php and mysql. you simply create a new vhost and click start.
This is the target audience - not the people who know how to clone a git repo and run a script in terminal.
He is trying to make it easy for new users and programmers. I know high school teachers that would use this to teach ruby web programming without all the error prone manual configuration.
Re:Kickstarter: rails.app
by matt_yoho on Thursday March 29, 2012 @12:45AM
(#3769667)
Right, this would be very valuable as a teaching resource, and thus indirectly valuable to the, I believe, sizable chunk Ruby/Rails community at large who enjoy doing it as their "day job".
In the php world, MAMP on osx is one of the reasons so many newbie jump into php. a simple app, abstracting away apache, php and mysql. you simply create a new vhost and click start.
This is the target audience - not the people who know how to clone a git repo and run a script in terminal.
He is trying to make it easy for new users and programmers. I know high school teachers that would use this to teach ruby web programming without all the error prone manual configuration.