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by Sodaware 5135 days ago
Most of the chart could apply to other web languages, including everybody's favourite whipping boy PHP.

For me, the hardest part of rails was getting a working environment setup on my server, development and build machines.

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It's true. With lots of my students, just getting running is a fairly large stumbling block. Everyone seems to hit a different issue. Hopefully some of the newer initiatives can resolve this. In the meantime, I'm trying to think of better ways to help my students. Let me know if you have any ideas!
Getting started is normally the hardest part, I remember giving up on java because I couldn't get the darn compiler to work.

Hello world never made it to my console :(