Installing RoR on PenDrive

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Kas Naranja wrote:

Hi,

I'm a very noob ror programer (i've started yesterday), but for my live, i've pass all the day going up & down, and in order to have a constant learning, i want to install ruby on rails, mysql, mysql-front, and RadRails on a 512mb PenDrive.

I've followed these steps:

1) Download latest RubyOnRails windows installer. 2) Execute it settign the path to the desired folder into yout pend drive (i.e: G:\DATA\RUBYONRAILS\) 3) Go to sleep. 4) When installed, type this on command:

There are 2 distributions that will work straight off from an external drive. The first is InstantRails and the other was announced on this list a few weeks back but I couldn't find it again. You may be able to search the archives of the list for that. I think, if you're just looking for it from the idea of learning and doing initial development (not deployment), InstantRails is a very good bet!

Cheers Mohit.

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Okay, here is how to do it properly: http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/ss/portable_ruby.htm http://ruby.about.com/od/resources/qt/portable_rails.htm

This allows your apps to execute properly off of the pen drive. It also has workarounds for when your pen drive maps to a different drive letter.

I have followed these instructions and find them to work fine. I would be worried about the long term effects on your USB drive. You end up doing an awful lot of write operations.

Just as a precaution I would probably create Databases on the windows C: drive (and copy them forward and back after use)

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You can use SQLite instead of MySQL to save some space and minimize writes to your pen drive. I’ve done this before but I tend to use SQLite3 to start almost all of my projects.