On 4/23/2020 4:34 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:08 PM Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
On 4/23/2020 12:51 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
On 4/23/2020 12:34 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
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3) use a full VM, like VirtualBox, which is free. You should be up
and running in minutes. Ubuntu 20.04 came out today, and I will be
installing it shortly (first on a dual boot basis on one of my
machines, and soon enough as my primary OS on others). I don't expect
that you will encounter any VirtualBox specific problems, but if you
do, I should be able to reproduce them. Other than that, you will be
running on Ubuntu which is my primary development operating system.
It sounds like this is probably the best option.
I now have a VirtualBox running Ubuntu 20.04.
Excellent! You are actually ahead of me.
Microsoft has made some changes that make getting VirtualBox working a
little more complicated than it used to be. Good information can be
found by just searching for the error message with "virtualbox" added.
Do we need to document that sort of thing anywhere, or can we assume any
potential Whimsy developer would know enough to Google an error message?
I assume I should next try following the Whimsy Ubuntu instructions.
Perhaps it might make sense to try the new node version first?
sudo apt install nodejs yarnpkg subversion git
The yarnpkg install was successful, but did not put the yarn command in
my path.
sudo snap install --classic code
git clone https://github.com/rubys/whimsy-board-agenda-nodejs
cd whimsy-board-agenda-nodejs
yarn install
This is where I got "command not found".
pats@Ubuntu2:~/whimsy-board-agenda-nodejs$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
yarn dev
code .
As to the Ruby version, I'm pretty sure that nobody other than myself
has tried the Ubuntu instructions. Since you have a recent Ubuntu, I
would recommend ignoring the rbenv and rvm parts of the instructions.
But we can work through these together, updating them as we go along,
as Ubuntu is both something I use daily and how the server is actually
deployed.
- Sam Ruby
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