I do all development and deployment on variations of Ubuntu. I run 8.10 on my desktop, 8.04.2 on my laptop, and 8.10 Server on my development server. I use Vim exclusively and it works well for me.
My recommendation is to give Ubuntu a try if you are looking at a PC and see how you like it. On Feb 13, 9:50 pm, agilehack <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks everyone- that was helpful > > On Feb 9, 7:31 pm, blasterpal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > AgileHack, > > > I work in an in-house Rails shop for a fairly large site (we are a > > team of about 7 developers, not including operations and QA). We use > > OSX on PowerMacs and Mac Minis with Textmate and git. Some are > > starting to poke around with MacVim and others swear by Netbeans. > > Secondly, everyone uses OSX for dev personally except for one guy who > > uses Debian. > > > Largely, everyone chooses OSX and Macs, its not a forced decision. All > > the vendors who come in to staff augment or work on other projects > > from respectable Ruby/Rails shops always show up with Macbooks. > > > For what it's worth, I don't use a MacBook pro, never have. I think > > they are too much $$ for RoR dev. I use a bottom of the line with > > extra RAM. > > > H --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
