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Chuck Payne

30 Dec 2009 30 Dec '09

16:54

Guys, We are about to use Ruby, and I see that on openSUSE 11.1 the lastest is 1.8.7, but we are being asked to install Ruby on Rails 2.3.2, what's the difference? Is Ruby on Rails something different that Ruby? -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Member skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup Identica -- terrorpup freenode(irc) -- terrorpup/lupinstein. friendfeed -- friendfeed.com/terrorpup Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Per Jessen

30 Dec 30 Dec

17:24

Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guys,

We are about to use Ruby, and I see that on openSUSE 11.1 the lastest is 1.8.7, but we are being asked to install Ruby on Rails 2.3.2, what's the difference? Is Ruby on Rails something different that Ruby?

AFAIK, Ruby is a programming language, Rails is a web app framework written in Ruby. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Chuck Payne

17:56

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Per Jessen wrote:

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Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guys,

We are about to use Ruby, and I see that on openSUSE 11.1 the lastest is 1.8.7, but we are being asked to install Ruby on Rails 2.3.2, what's the difference? Is Ruby on Rails something different that Ruby?

AFAIK, Ruby is a programming language, Rails is a web app framework written in Ruby.

/Per

-- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C)

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Ah so like jboss is to java, make sense. Thanks. -- ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Member skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup Identica -- terrorpup freenode(irc) -- terrorpup/lupinstein. friendfeed -- friendfeed.com/terrorpup Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Randall R Schulz

18:07

On Wednesday December 30 2009, Chuck Payne wrote:

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Per Jessen wrote:

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Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guys,

We are about to use Ruby, and I see that on openSUSE 11.1 the lastest is 1.8.7, but we are being asked to install Ruby on Rails 2.3.2, what's the difference? Is Ruby on Rails something different that Ruby?

AFAIK, Ruby is a programming language, Rails is a web app framework written in Ruby.

/Per

-- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C)

Ah so like jboss is to java, make sense. Thanks.

More like what Grails is to Groovy or Lift is to Scala. Rails is a kind of rapid prototyping system for Web Apps in Ruby. JBoss is a application server, which is a lower-level set of facilities on which Web Applications that use databases may be built. Things like Rails, Grails and Lift offer much higher-level and labor-saving interfaces to the application server level. In the Java world (including Grails / Groovy and Lift / Scala), there are multiple app servers or servlet containers and the Web App frameworks usually can operate on any of those foundations. In Ruby there's no standardized Web App foundation API, so Rails provides that, too. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Greg Freemyer

17:56

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Per Jessen wrote:

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Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guys,

We are about to use Ruby, and I see that on openSUSE 11.1 the lastest is 1.8.7, but we are being asked to install Ruby on Rails 2.3.2, what's the difference? Is Ruby on Rails something different that Ruby?

AFAIK, Ruby is a programming language, Rails is a web app framework written in Ruby.

/Per

-- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C)

Agreed, Ruby has been around for a decade or so, but it never really took off as a standalone language. Then the RubyOnRails was written in Ruby. It has been extremely popular and is still undergoing rapid improvement I believe. When you install RubyOnRails it should have the appropriate version of Ruby as a dependency. It has been a while since I did much in rails, but it used to be that the preferred webserver was lighttpd. fyi: A lot of the new opensuse web infrastructure is written in rails. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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