It seems that a lot of people develop Ruby On Rails using Windows.
I suppose that makes sense (to a point), so it was only inevitable that O’Reilly (or someone else) would get round to publishing a book / pamphlet on setting up a development environment.
In this case it was O’Reilly with “Rails on Windows” – it’s a PDF download, so you get to download and make the trees suffer later 🙂
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I’d imagine it’s a terribly painful procedure; they’d really be better off use a virtual machine.
Robert
I’ve no idea 🙂
I can’t imagine that it’s easy and I know I wouldn’t do it, but that’s just me
I used to do RoR on Windows before switching to OS X and while it wasn’t ideal it wasn’t “terribly painful.” Handy booklet though, thanks.
Paul
Configuring and running OSS software on Windows may not be excruciating, but it’s a hell of a lot easier on Ubuntu 🙂
M
The Rails stack and MySQL was all pretty easy on Windows. Gems installed fine too.
I mainly prefer RoR dev on OS X because of the better command line and TextMate. Otherwise it is largely the same as on Windows.
Granted, when you start going off the beaten track then it does get harder on Windows than on a *nix style system.
Saying that not all *nix systems are easy for RoR. Solaris can be a huge pain.