Workshop Installation Notes

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Getting Started

Find your operating system in the list below, or the operating system closest to what you have. Follow the step-by-step instructions. If you get stuck or hit a problem you can't figure out, you can join and e-mail the RailsBridge google group. Otherwise, just bring your laptop to the workshop installfest on Friday and our volunteers will help you pick up where you left off.

There are a lot of steps, and the instructions may seem like they're in a foreign language, but: don't panic! By the end of the workshop, you'll know what each one is and how to use it.

Overview

You will be installing the following tools:

Git
Ruby
RubyGems
Cucumber, Rspec, Webrat
Rails
SQLite
SQLite manager Firefox plugin (and Firefox if it's not already installed)
Heroku
KomodoEdit

During this process you'll create a Heroku account if you don't already have one. Heroku is the free Ruby on Rails hosting service that we're using for workshop projects.