Ruby on Rails

I use Windows Vista for a lot of my RoR development as it's convenient
for me with my current setup even though I run an Ubuntu box as well.

Not everything works in windows, as you might expect, but 95% of it
does. This is with a regular ruby install, no instant rails- which is
out of date.

You will learn quite a bit using windows. Some of the stuff you learn
- how to trouble shoot malfunctioning gems for example - will be
invaluable to you later on.

If you have some major computer horsepower you can go the virtual
route, but it might be better to dual boot linux.

My advice is to try installing ruby and rails in win 7 first. Take
notes and blog about it.

On Aug 1, 6:29 am, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 August 2010 06:16, ncage <choclab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > is a windows machine good enough to get started with ROR Development?
>
> Honestly, without trying to be contentious: no.
>
> You *can* get along getting into Rails using Windows (I started that
> way with InstantRails), but you will discover occasional things that
> don't work *quite* how you expect, especially when you get to using
> lots of third-party plugins/gems. You will probably be better off,
> going straight into a *nix environment of some description.
>
> The easiest solution is to use a VM (either install your own, or use
> the out-of-the-box VirtualRails [1] for an all-in-one solution, or the
> TurnkeyLinux Rails Server [2], either of which you can then customise
> to your heart's content).
>
> But if you want to make the leap to Ubuntu as a desktop OS it does cut
> out the hypervising midle-man :-)
>
> [1]http://www.virtualrails.org/
> [2]http://www.turnkeylinux.org/rails

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