Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu

So finally, after having waited in my to-do list for reasonably long time, Ruby and Rails is installed on my Ubuntu 12.04 (the proven, practical and precise OS). Yes, I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12 after the upgrade from Ubuntu 11 rendered the OS respond slow (Ubuntu team, are you reading this?). But, I am more excited about Ruby on Rails. If you haven't heard of it yet, you need to catch up. Visit its homepage here. This post is going to talk about installing Ruby on Rails (I will call it Rails henceforth going by the common term) which...

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Install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Oracle VirtualBox

With Microsoft releasing Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC in Barcelona a few days back, I could not wait to give it a try. And as you might have expected, my best bet is to get it installed on Oracle VM VirtualBox. So, lets get started. If you do not have the VirtualBox installed, you can get it from here. I have Oracle VM VirtualBox version 4.1.8 on my machine. Next, I have downloaded the consumer preview of Windows 8 from here, and you should...

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