On May 9, 11:10 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past I have used Rails on both windows and linux without > problems. Some posts here seem to imply that Rails runs better on > Linux. Are you saying there is a problem with Rails on Windows?
There's nothing inherently wrong with Rails on Windows, but there is a definite tendency of Windows installs to cause peculiar heisenbugs. For instance, there was a glitch a while back in Bundler (I seem to recall) where things went wrong if you were bundling in a directory whose name contained a space. As another example, there was (still is, I think) a nasty race condition with the rake task that grabs the current Rails code from installed gems and unpacks it into vendor/rails. Under certain hard-to- reproduce combinations of virus scanners and environments the task would fail - but could be tricked into succeeding by adding a 1 or 2 second delay between creating the directory and unpacking the gem. Both of these point back to a single issue: there's not nearly as many devs on Windows, so plugins and tools tend to get somewhat less thorough testing there and it's harder to find support. Add in the lack of a single standard compiler environment and compatibility issues with other parts of the toolset (MySQL + some Windows versions, for instance) and you get a whole bunch of headaches that many developers simply don't want to have to deal with. --Matt Jones -- 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.
