Ruby on Rails

On 1 August 2010 06:16, ncage <choclabs74@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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