It’s easy to get developers excited to try Ruby on Rails, with its productivity, speed and efficiency … but, then comes the time it takes to set it up. “If you have a $5 a month droplet on Digital Ocean, it will probably take you 40 minutes to compile a new Ruby version from source for your droplet,” said André Arko, co-creator of Bundler for Ruby and author of The Ruby Way, third edition.
Arko added that downloads are only required at install and then when the language updates, but the download time is off-putting for new…