Ruby on Rails on Raspberry Pi

Success!  I have managed to get Ruby on Rails installed on the RPi on Saturday, although quite when it finished, I don't know!  The instructions I had followed warned that the process would take a while, but I hadn't expected it to take sooooo long! I went to bed at 2am and the installation which started at 11.30pm was still going! When I checked back on Sunday morning it had completed with the latest versions of Ruby & Rails installed (I subsequently rolled back to Rails version 3.0.10 for the Server Side Web Tech course)

In the meantime, I was making sure that Rails was also installed and working correctly on my laptop - I have some homework to get finished before Monday! Having the same Rails versions installed side-by-side on (reasonably) standard hardware and the RPi will give me an opportunity to benchmark the credit card sized hardware.  I suspect that Ruby on Rails on RPi (RoRoR!) will be slower to execute a similar instruction than the laptop or any other "conventional" hardware; Rails might be beyond its intended scope.

I'll have a go at both simultaneously and see how the Raspberry Pi compares.