On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:42 AM, byrnejb <[email protected]> wrote: > Re: MicroSoft Windows, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails (RoR) > > I formerly did a lot of offline development in Rails on a Windows > XPpro system. I started out using pre-packaged native MS-Win binaries
Just cleansing myself from a few months of RoR on WindowsXP. > > At that juncture I switched to Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and Cygwin presented some frustrations also. I use Cygwin for somethings, but run cmd and native RoR for others. Really drove me notes having to work in that environment when I have experience in OSX & Linux. > > By the way, switching platforms to BSD/Linux/OSX often means trading > one form of frustration for another. True, and someone with no *nix experience would probably want to jump out a window (no pun intended) if they had to adopt that on top of the RoR learning curve. It *IS* much better though. Being able to just 'sudo apt-get install foo' when you're missing something instead of trying to find, download, install and configure is refreshing. My solution now is to run Xubuntu on a VirtualBox in my WindowsXp machine. Amazingly, Linux feels fasters in a VM than native WindowsXP. -- Greg Akins http://twitter.com/akinsgre -- 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.
