Hi,
I am now starting developing in Rails full time. To be more
effective, I want to use one of my old laptops as a server running
rails, source control, database server and other tools.
My ideal setup is to have all the configurations on that system and to
open ssh terminals into it. I will keep the old laptop running
always.
I am seeking advice on the following:
1. What distro linux is best for Rails, right now I have ubuntu server
on it.
Any linux distro should be fine as long as you maintain your gems via
the gem command. I strongly recommend you not to rely on distros
packages for gems, specially on Ubuntu or Debian like, since they
might get old soon.
2. How to I enable remote logging to this machine. (Like I can login
to a dedicated server with a hosting company)
Install openssh package, I think in Ubuntu is openssh-server or
something like that, then start the deamon and configure it to run at
startup (really don't remember how you should do that on Ubuntu, I'm
not an Ubuntu's user)
3. This laptop has 512 MB ram and 2.2 GHZ is that speed ok?
Might be a bit short, I would recommedn at least 1Gb, but it should
work, maybe it will seem a bit slow, specially if you will be running
all the services there.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
You're welcome. Hope it helps
BTW, this is just my 2 cents, you should wait for more answers and
evaluate them all.