For the past few weeks, I’ve been teaching myself Ruby and Rails. Or rather, I’ve been trying to. I’ve been hitting snags when trying to actually set up my environment in my Ubuntu Server VM. Coming from a predominately PHP background, Rails (and Phusion Passenger in particular) are much more temperamental than I’m used to. I also prefer compiling my application stack myself from source as much as possible, while the Rails community seems to prefer installing packages.

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