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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing the Treehouse VM on Windows

Posted by Cody Wilson
Cody Wilson
859 Points

Why?

Not trolling. I just want to know why we use the virtual machine. I get that it runs the rails app but why not just run it on our own machine? Why the extra step?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Makes it really easy to set up multiple environments on the same machine, which might be common in a professional setting. You might need to work in ruby 2.0 on one app and ruby 1.9 in another.

Also, you're not actually installing anything on your "main" computer, so if something goes horribly wrong, you can destroy the box and restart, and since you weren't' actually modifying your main machine, there is no harm.