Windows! Harummmphhhh! :) Tried Rails development under Windows initially, almost 5 years ago, gave up on that. I hear it's improved, though. Used Linux inside VirtualBox until moving to a Mac last year.
I recommend that route for anyone stuck with a Windows machine: run Linux (I ran Ubuntu) in a virtual machine. Gedit has add-ins that made it tolerable. Don't know if RubyMine has a Linux version. There are others. I've used Harvest, but it didn't have an offline option. Maybe it does now. 2012....wow, man, really? :) Yeah, I go way back. I remember when the Mac came out and all the nerds in the company trooped down to a local computer store together to see that cute little box. Well before that I used time-sharing on a portable teletype with a roll of heat-sensitive paper and a built-in modem that you put the phone handset into (300 baud, about 30 chars/sec, I think). Well before that I punched cards and fed them into a card reader (it was already old technology, but it was donated to my college). If I recall correctly, the computer, an IBM 1620, could do up to 100,000 additions a second. Its core memory was organized as 20,000 consecutive *decimal* digits that wrapped from the end to the beginning. You could write a program that would propagate itself through memory N times and then wipe memory clean and stop. If you put a radio on top of the computer, it put out tones at the frequency of a program's loops, so you could hear how your program was doing. Someone wrote a program to generate musical tones and several Christmas carols. Ah, those were the days.... Enough of that, back to work! Scott On Friday, August 3, 2012 11:57:21 AM UTC-7, Patrick Crowley wrote: > > Yeah, time to ditch Windows. It's 2012, Scott. > > I hear good things about Harvest. > > http://www.getharvest.com > > -- Patrick > > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
