Luis, Linux/Unix is neither new nor an experiment. Linux is 20 years old. The Unix and Unix like operating systems are new like America was new when Columbus crossed the Atlantic. I know he missed America but that's not the point. America had been there for centuries. It was just new to old Christopher and the people in Europe. In many ways people who have been developing in Windows land see Linux as a new land and have a tough time with the learning curve in this new world. Anyway, Somnath, if you're stuck in Windows land a JVM based language might be the way to go. JRuby which is a JVM based language is much less problematic on Windows than native Ruby. It runs as good or better on the JVM compared to native Ruby (even on Linux) and from what I have read is very ROR friendly. Some limitations but they are fewer and fewer as time goes on and this might help you get around the problems you are having with Ruby on Windows. I tried Ruby/Rails Installer on the XP laptop I have at work and bagged it after about a 1/2 hour and just stayed with Ruby on Ubuntu. Wasn't worth the aggravation for me.
Rick On Nov 26, 6:04 pm, Dave Aronson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 16:14, Luis Lavena <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is funny that Ruby (mostly Rails) is only community I know that > > attacks developers using Windows > > Whoa, hold on there buckaroo! > > We do *not* "attack" them! (Okay, maybe *some* people do, but the > Ruby community at large certainly doesn't, and frowns on those who > do.) We just tell them that they're probably going to have some > additional difficulties. If they want to keep developing Ruby under > Windows, for whatever reason, they're welcome to, and we'll gladly > give them what help we can. However, a lot of it is based on the > values of environment variables (especially paths) and other things > that are a good bit harder to deal with properly under Windows than on > Unixes (including Linux and, under the hood, Mac). > > If it were a matter of snobbery, you'd probably see the Linux and Mac > guys "attacking" each other. But no, it's a simple realization that > some tools are better than others at certain things. Yes, one could > argue that one of the above is better than the other for such tasks... > but the difference is small enough that it's not a significant added > difficulty, especially as compared to Windows. > > Analogy: if you want to carve your turkey with an ordinary table > knife, because that's all you've got and after all that's what most > people use for most of their general food-prep-with-a-knife purposes, > you go right ahead. It will still work OK (albeit with a lot more > effort), and we of the turkey-carving community will still give you > turkey-carving advice if you ask. However, we'll still recommend you > use a proper carving knife, or maybe a butcher's knife, or at least a > large high-quality steak knife. On the other claw, we also wouldn't > recommend using a carving knife for spreading butter on our dinner > rolls. > > -Dave > > -- > LOOKING FOR WORK! What: Ruby (on/off Rails), Python, other modern languages. > Where: Northern Virginia, Washington DC (near Orange Line), and remote work. > See: davearonson.com (main) * codosaur.us (code) * dare2xl.com (excellence). > Specialization is for insects. (Heinlein) - Have Pun, Will Babble! (Aronson) -- 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.
