I’m learning Ruby on Rails: Day 1 part 1 of 2

I’m out hunting around for a new job and in my down time I decided to learn something new skills. Last night I signed up for a slicehost vps. At $20 for a small, but capable slice, I find its the best deal for a developer (they aren’t a domain registrar, though, d’oh). I needed a more robust webhost and I wanted to learn something new.

I’ve already tackled a Drupal install and peeked around in there, as well as Moveable Type and some CodeIgniter, just to see what was up, but those are all PHP. I’ve done Django/Python stuff before, too, so I guess its time to learn some RoR.

Slicehost makes this ridiculously easy to setup. I’ve got an Ubuntu Intrepid slice so I can support Python 3 moving forward and they have great articles on hardening Intrepid and keeping it updated for production use.

Any, I just finished the rails/svn/postfix setup and the mod_rails setup. Super easy tutorial, super easy setup. The rails hello world tutorial and the apache virtual host setup. I can’t believe how easily the Slicehost guys break down these once complicated tasks.

Anyway. Thats what I’ve been doing. Following tutorials, looking at some of this basic best practice stuff. Later today I’ll post about my first real app.