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Discussion on: What’s your opinion on the Ruby programming language?

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Michael Z

I would love to pick it up, maybe just because of how DHH speaks of it :D

I recently tried it and one thing that put me off was the installation. I couldn't access installed gems like rails and searching online for the issue it seems there is a wide range of bundlers people use and I just couldn't find help for my super basic setup. I will probably try reinstalling everything again once I have a little more free time.

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rhymes

I suggest using rvm not to depend on the operating system's ruby :-)

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Kelly Stannard

I would suggest using chruby. It was reviewed and approved by the head rvm maintainer. The only reason to use RVM these days is if you are maintaining a legacy app that needs it.

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rhymes

Didn't know about chruby! Going to check it out :) Thanks!

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lbonanomi

Needing to use rvm was honestly a big reason that I let my ruby use dwindle to just chef customizations; I really couldn't stand having to maintain more than 2 package catalogs.