Thursday, January 9, 2014

Setting up new dev laptop

My wonderful wife got me a new laptop for my birthday that I can use for my Linux Ruby dev environment.

Short on study time this week as I have been removing Windows from the laptop and installing Linux on it. The biggest problem was getting the WiFi working on it, but now think I am set.

This morning as an experiment I have installed Eclipse on the laptop with the Ruby plugins, still need to figure out how to add the debugger for Ruby though. I know most people just use a text editor, but I remember when I was learning Visual Basic years ago, I learned the most when I was stepping through other peoples code. Hopefully I can find a way to replicate that with Ruby.

I also recently got the Book of Ruby and I am working my way through it. I really like the author, seems to set an easy, engaging, and understandable tone from what I have read so far.

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