About Ruby

[Liuzizhang]

I would like to ask here, how does Ruby provide support for beginners? As a newcomer who has never been exposed to Ruby, I came across this project and am very interested in it. Although I have no experience with Ruby, I don't think that's a problem.

However, I didn't expect to encounter such a challenging situation, with package management tools and version management being separate, no binary files, and slow updates of RubyInstaller on the Windows platform. So, to experience an open-source project, I even had to recompile the Ruby source code. To be honest, this is just too silly.

[Liuzizhang]

I apologize for posting unrelated content here; please feel free to delete it if it offends.

[bschrag620]

I think there are a lot of resources out there for Ruby, especially a Rails project such as this. However, a lot of the guides may not touch on getting Ruby setup on your local machine. Are you using WSL on windows by any chance? If not, I'd highly recommend utilizing it. I've done dev work on Rails projects for about 5 years on both Windows and Mac machines. WSL setup on Windows machines has consistently been easier than the setup on the Mac due to the shift in cpu architecture on the M1/2.

[bschrag620]

And actually, just noticed @zachgoll has already handled this here.

[Liuzizhang]

OK，thank you for your help.I will solve it.This discussion is just complaining about Ruby.At the same time, I feel that this kind of project is not suitable for using Ruby，right？

[bschrag620]

Rails is a rather mature framework that has great product velocity, scalability, and community support - but I'm also a bit biased ;-).

[HolyWalley]

I feel that this kind of project is not suitable for using Ruby

why so?

[emjayess]

As a non-rubyist (👋🏼 hi, from php/laravel land) I am one who actively encouraged @Shpigford to embrace ruby/rails and drop the js-centric code rails replaced with this decision..

As a non-rubyist, I'm not sure if I'll ever contribute (code) to this project, but I 👏🏼 applaud the decision and recognize rails as a terrific choice (and long ago, rails also was sort of inspiration for laravel to emerge and be to php what rails has been to ruby). I have enjoyed seeing the momentum/velocity of this project take-off, once that decision was reached.

Any energy expended questioning or debating the merits of that decision would likely be better spent either learning the framework, or admiring the project and porting it to a stack you know and love, if you care enough to do so.