Hello, Informational post in case any windows developers are interested.
I had heard that ruby on a linux VM running on windows can be faster than on that same install of windows. I recently got fed up waiting 1min & 30secs for my unit and functional tests to run for a small project (no integration tests yet), and the big lurching pause that happens when running rails in development mode on my Pentium-M 1.7Ghz laptop, I decided to try a linux VM running in the free VMWare player, specifically those provided by jumpbox.com (debian/ubuntu I think) which are supposed to be production ready linux VMs. I probably should have tried a different VM as I had a lot of hassle installing and configuring postgres instead of the supplied mysql: I'm a bit of a newbie at this linux business and installing rails would have been easier. In anycase it was a waste of time since switching the linux VM rails project to use my windows postgres server just for fun turned out 20% faster?!?! Note, don't use a netbios name in the rails database config: use the machine's ip address else bizarre behaviour. All in all "rake test" dropped from 90secs to a mind blowing 30secs. The actual tests themselves run between 2 and 3 times faster, but it seems to be initialization that takes the bulk of the time. I prefer my windows tools (specifically Notepad++, even though it still doesn't understand rhtml and haml files) and windows explorer, so I am now developing with my project folders on the windows computer but 'mounted' to a folder in the linux VM running rails, configured to use my windows postgres server. The VM uses about 250 megs of RAM having disabled mysql and other stuff. If you have zero linux experience and want to try the above then I would recommend finding a VM that has all that you need already installed (recentish version of rails requiring some simple gem updating and the database, for example). Learning linux from scratch in order to setup a system, as I have done, is a lot of hassle. Otherwise prefer apt-get over manually installing, and learn linux security before all else. And download winSCP. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
