Previously, I have complained how Linux (and the Linux Gods) truly hated me<\/a> and went out of its way to make my life miserable. Even repeated sacrifices of Windows and Apples didn’t help until, like a Miracle sent from Tux, I came across PCLinuxOS<\/a>. This has been wonderful. It works with all my hardware and is really easy to use.<\/p>\n

There is one small problem. Since I mentioned Toutatis in the last post<\/a>, the Linux God Tux seems to have passed the message on to the Rails God to make my life hell once more.<\/p>\n

PCLinuxOS is still brilliant. It works really well. It came with Ruby installed (version 1.8.5) and installing ruby gems (0.9.2) was a walk in the park. The problems started when I got all clever and issued:<\/p>\n

gem install rails –include-dependencies<\/p>\n

The first time, I got an error message saying it could not find rails in any repository, second time it seemed to run ok. Sadly, despite getting messages telling me rails-1.2.3 is properly installed, I can’t get it to run. I get various error messages, depending on what obscure task I am trying to do (eg. “rails demo” produces errors about not having the 1.2.3 version, and needing to edit environment.rb to reflect the actual version…).<\/p>\n

This creates a bit of a quandry. I can download (in fact I already downloaded it) the Rails CD version of PCLinuxOS, but I like this installation. It is set up to my preferences. I have spent time tweaking it and installing firefox extensions (for example). The thought of re-installing just to get rails running is nauseating. However, one of the reasons I wanted Linux was to do Ruby \/ Rails development in a way which matched the deployment server.<\/p>\n

Choices, choices… I think it is time for some more sacrifices… Maybe some coffee beans will do the trick for Ruby, no idea for Rails…<\/p>\n