I started developing Ruby on Windows and soon realised that if I was going to deploy anything I'd be better off switching to Linux/Mac. As I had a spare machine I just installed Ubuntu and set to work going up the learning curve. It was pretty steep at first because my Ubuntu didn't like the old graphics cards on the spare machine. But after a lot of frustration I finally broke through, started using it and fell in love with the magic of apt-get and other command line tools that just don't exist in windows.
I'd say that the big reasons for using Linux/OS X for RoR development & production are;- 1) git commit 2) git push 3) cap deploy 4) Oh and Phusion-Passenger How can you live without those? But on Windows they either don't exist or are so shackled by the OS they're barely usable. If you're going to deploy your Rails app you can save yourself a lot of headaches by learning Linux. It's a learning curve, but that's what life is. I hardly ever use Windows these days. John Small -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
