MarcRic wrote in post #961715: > Davo, > > When I say "alternatives better then both", I mean other HTTP Web > servers which is the subject now. > > The O.S. of the server is just a matter of taste or a decision already > made for you.
Not necessarily. Many of us have significant control over that. > > I have my personal choices concerning O.S. for servers (Servers in > general not only for Web Servers), but at work that is a corporate > decision, which involves not only technical, but political and > commercial decisions, and currently they are under Windows O.S. > > So, my general answer to those that are simply "against Windows" is: > stay out of the IT corporate business. Excuse me? I'm quite happily working in a corporate IT job. I still hate Windows. > Do only your personal choice > stuff with the resources you can afford, because in the corporate > industry, some decisions are made for you, not by you. And if you play > the game you will follow their rules not yours. Depends. We're using Rails (on Linux) with MS SQL (on Windows). I can live with that because I don't ever really have to touch the Windows box. OTOH, I would have little hesitation turning down a Rails dev job where I was forced to use either a Windows server or a Windows development computer. I'm quite happy to refuse to play by "their" rules if those rules make no sense. > > The origins of the Trainer On Rails site is an effort to prove that > "the Windows users minority" can develop cool stuff using Ruby on > Rails in a productive way under Windows, apart from which Server's > O.S. will support the application in the end. Oh, I know you *can*. I just don't see why it's worth the bother. > > Regards. > > -- > MarcRic > www.marcric.com > http://marcricblog.blogspot.com/ > http://www.traineronrails.com/ > http://groups.google.com.br/group/riorubyrails Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- 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.
