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Improve installation instructions #1025

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bobbicodes opened this issue Mar 30, 2020 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1026
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Improve installation instructions #1025

bobbicodes opened this issue Mar 30, 2020 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1026
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I found the instructions linked to on INSTALLATION.md a bit confusing, particularly from a Linux perspective - it is focused on Rails development, and has the user install Postgres. Then I was led to a strange tutorial about installing Vagrant, and finally just went to the official ruby guide which simply told me to use my package manager which just worked! IMO the official docs do a much better job.

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kotp commented Mar 31, 2020

Very much Jumpstart oriented. I had a hard time seeing the Rails connection, until they mentioned it in relationship to the database they chose to suggest.

Did you really install Postgres? Sorry about that, not necessary for Ruby and not necessary for the Ruby track.

I agree that is a lot of information to digest, and would for sure be the wrong information to give to someone that is new to programming.

Yes, I think the Ruby guide is a much more reasonable resource, as I am sure the other instructions are more for a specific development environment... and we are more concerned with pretty plain Ruby.

Please do review the pull request that is mentioned in this issue.

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xxylem commented Apr 12, 2020

Hi, just to add that I had a similar problem to @porkostomus, the old installation instructions for Windows lead to http://railsinstaller.org/en, which ends up giving you Ruby 2.3. It looks like #1026 provided by @kotp will fix this.

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kotp commented Apr 12, 2020

If someone from @exercism/ruby will approve it, it should be in shortly after that.

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