Dropbox comes in handy too, this way you can do development anywhere. I haven't tried the Windows tools for RoR and prefer Mac style when it comes to RoR.
On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:39:31 AM UTC+11, Fai Wong wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > I'm an ASP .Net dev guy for close to 7 years now and have always used PC. > Last year I bought a Macbook on Gumtree and have recently found a lot of > joy in programming Ruby on Rails using Terminal. I run VMware Fusion with > Windows OS for my .Net dev but found myself doing less of that now. > > Sometimes I just power on my PC with windows and then remote desktop via > Chrome. That worked well too. > > - Fai > > On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:46:31 AM UTC+11, Michael Armistead wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been learning Rails for several weeks now. I am working through >> Michael Hartl's tutorial and other various things. My question is basically >> regarding what type of environment to do my development in. First, some >> background: >> >> I have used different linux distros on and off throughout the years, so >> it was easy and familiar for me to set up my desktop computer with Mint and >> get rvm/rails etc installed and working correctly. No issues there. >> >> However, I went out and bought a laptop this last weekend; I have never >> installed any linux variant on a laptop, so when I did it was startling to >> find out how incredibly terrible the battery life / power management >> functions were. I was getting ~2 hours of life just doing simple web >> browsing. After spending an afternoon tweaking everything (using powertop, >> thinkfan etc), I was able to increase that marginally. >> >> Then, I had someone recommend that I use win7 as my host OS, and then use >> a VM for rails development. While doing some research, I came across >> Vagrant. I got it set up and installed using one of the boxes made for >> rails development, however I have not started using it yet. I guess the >> idea is still quite fresh regarding workflow. If I was using a standard VM >> with ubuntu or whatever, I would boot it up and do my work inside just as >> if it was the host OS. When it comes to Vagrant, I am a little more >> confused. >> >> Am I supposed to start my headless vagrant box, start all my services / >> rails server etc inside, but then have Sublime Text 2 on my host OS - and >> work out of the shared directory while just performing tests inside of the >> VM? >> >> I use Guard / Spork on my desktop - how do I set this up within Vagrant? >> I have read that some people have issues with it. >> >> Am I going to run into any problems down the line running windows as my >> OS for coding / the VM for testing and server? >> >> Well, I am rambling. This whole idea is just very fresh for me, so I am >> just looking for any feedback possible. I want to get my development >> environment set up as fast (but as stable) as possible, so I can get back >> to learning more rails! >> >> Thanks everyone, >> Michael >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/p0YYRPx743EJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
