Rubynoob

Well, getting typo up and running in a development environment was an awful lot easier than I had thought! I downloaded InstantRails, extracted it to my hard drive (it took a really, REALLY long time to extract), and followed the instructions found here. Once Instant Rails was on my computer it only took a few minutes to get typo fired up.

Sadly, though, I'm not quite ready to tackle typo development. Instant Rails comes with typo 2.6 which is apparently really, really old. The Amazon sidebar component that I want to modify didn't exist in this build. Major bummer! So now I'm off to figure out how to put the latest typo into Instant Rails. More reports to come!