Ramblings of a Programmer

I finished working through the Day 1 section of Four Days on Rails this evening. It was a struggle at first trying to get everything setup, especially on Windows (still not fixed there), but that is behind me now. The deeper I get into it, the more interesting it gets.

I have had some issues getting started, especially on my Dell laptop. I have been trying to get the tutorial application working on Apache 2 on the laptop, but I am unable to get it going that way.

On my Power Mac, everything went very smoothly.

I finally got started on this yesterday. I pulled down the InstantRails setup and got it all unzipped, but I could not get my first small application (from a tutorial) working. I kept getting an error message when trying to launch the server.

I pulled down Locomotive and set it up on my Power Mac at home and got the same tutorial working in just a matter of minutes.

I need to try again on the Windows laptop today and see if I can get it working there.

I finally picked up the book and started reading today. I had to do something other than all of the moving of boxes that I have been doing as of late.

I am eager to get into later chapters now and start producing something with Rails.