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colbyolson
on Jan 21, 2011
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Get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one comm...
I don't understand the point of using a one-liner vs just doing it in a process and getting an understanding of whats going on at each step.
joshfng
on Jan 21, 2011
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I totally agree that you should become fully comfortable with setting up a box manually. But when you perform the same setup over and over and have the process memorized as I do then writing a little shell script to get the job done never hurts.
colbyolson
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I agree, and perhaps I should have added that into my comment.
For a newbie, have them walk through it, but for the repeated process, then automate it.
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