Installing Rails can be one of the trickiest things to overcome for
a newbie to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Being an open source project with lots of dependencies is a great strength for Rails and allows it to innovate quickly, but it has the unfortunate side effect of making a prospective developer jump through a lot of hoops, particularly for someone new to programming or new to the Unix/Linux world.
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Product & Development on Mar. 13, 2013 by Bret McGowen