Ruby on Rails Tips

Learning Rails

• Install a free Ruby on Rails IDE

  Follow the instructions on the radrails documentation page.

  Note: I've switched to just using Kate to edit files. Maybe I'll try radrails again later on.

• Learn how to get started with Ruby on Rails

  Read the following two tutorials:

  • Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
  • ONLamp.com -- Rolling with Ruby on Rails

• Find some nifty Rails tips

  Visit railstips.org.

Fixing Problems

• Get "script/console" working

  On Debian unstable you need to install "Interactive Ruby (irb)":

  apt-get install irb

• Fix "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)" error when using XAMPP MySQL server

  Create a symlink to the XAMPP MySQL socket:

  ln -s /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock