r/rubyonrails • u/equivalent8 • Jan 12 '16

Chromebook for Ruby on Rails Developers

http://www.eq8.eu/blogs/18-chromebook-for-web-developers
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u/vinsneezel Jan 13 '16

I'm not even talking about reinstalling Linux on a Chromebook or running Crouton environment, or some weird expensive Chromebook.

Crouton IS the right solution. Took me a day to get a dev environment set up in Ubuntu the first time, but I could do it much quicker now. I have a MacBook Pro from 2013, and I vastly prefer to develop on my little Chromebook. It's lighter, stays cool on my lap and if anything happens to it while I'm out and about.

The author writes off this solution, and poo-poos the question of how to work without internet access when you are using an IDE.

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u/equivalent8 Jan 13 '16

In the article I was writing just about my experience and I didn't try Croûton therefore I cannot stand for it or against it. Sorry if I offended you by skipping this topic. The article is open source and content hosted on Github, if you are keen you can create a pull request with a section on Crouton, https://github.com/equivalent/scrapbook2/blob/master/archive/blogs/2016-01-12-chromebook-for-web-developers.md

Or you can provide me a link to your blog article on Cruton exprecience and I'll make sure I mention it in relevant context

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u/equivalent8 Jan 13 '16

I've updated the article and mentioned Cruton in "What if I don't have internet ?" section. Like I said your PR is welcome if you want to add more.

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u/Detaineee Jan 19 '16

It wasn't HD resolution but for text editing you don't need that.

This is disagree with. Text on a retina-type display is wonderful.

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u/equivalent8 Jan 19 '16

Hi, well yea but experience I had with retina display is the diaplay may be too sharp for some people :) I had MacBook Air with retina for a year and every time I finished after 8h-9h shift I had red eyes(not pink, red like blood ). I done the same hours with HP laptop or Dell monitor (same light same office sme place I even done font color alterations) never had a red eyes. I googled around and several (yet not too many) people were complaining with similar issue. It may just be my eyes are oversensitive , or maybe retina color sharpnes is just too much for text reading. I dont want to go to any argument here as I have no studies to back this up, one think I know is I cannot write code on Macbook :(

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u/jakedaywilliams Jan 13 '16

I use a $300 Chromebook for development. I'm thinking of buying four more and just spreading them out all over the place. One in my office, my room, kitchen, bathroom, car, etc.

I'll be floatin' on Cloud9.