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On 19/05/2009, at 11:51 PM, John Small <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
