Ruby on Rails

> On Jan 17, 2016, at 9:17 AM, Pierre Hollander <pierrehollander@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I want to start using Ruby on Rails on my Windows machine.
> I am a beginner with Ruby and Rails. Do however build websites
> in HTML5 and CSS3. Where can I learn how to use this Framework ?
> What is the best platform to work on with this as a developer, I mean what
> options do I have on my Windows machine ?
>
> Any help and direction would be appreciated...

I've never tried this combination before, but I have heard over and over in the nearly 10 years I have been subscribed to this list that Windows is really difficult to use for Rails development. Any *nix is a hundred times easier.

If you start off with the Hartl tutorial (http://railstutorial.org) you will end up using an online IDE in a browser, so you won't have to worry about any of the local setup, and you can use Windows directly. But the pro advice I have heard here time and again is to install a virtualization scheme, like VirtualBox, and run Ubuntu there as your dev environment -- or simply dual-boot into Ubuntu or another Linux.

I am not saying it is impossible to develop directly in Windows, one of my co-workers does quite successfully. But getting it to work at all was weeks of pain and struggle, and when it goes badly, there is nearly nobody to help him figure out what is wrong, since his dev environment is so custom.

Walter

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