# Networked windows development client to linux server?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857 "2006-11-07T10:59:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lambo4jos)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857/1 "2006-11-07T10:59:30Z")

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I am new to rails and linux. I have built an ubuntu rails server at  
home and have gotten test projects working. I will eventually deploy  
into a Linux production environment.

I am faster and more comfortable developing on my windows laptop using  
radrails and I am aware that linux supports this also.

Is there a way to work from windows using Radrails connecting to the  
mysql database and rails on the ubuntu server so all programming and  
database building is happening on the ubuntu server from the windows  
machine again with radrails?

If so, is there anyone who can begin to tell me how I would go about  
doing this?

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**Author:** ![lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lambo4jos)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857/2 "2006-11-07T10:59:31Z")

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> machine again with radrails?
> 
> If so, is there anyone who can begin to tell me how I would go about  
> doing this?

samba will give you file-share access to your linux box…

[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/)

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**Author:** ![lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lambo4jos)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857/3 "2006-11-07T10:59:32Z")

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I’ve been pretty successful running RadRails on Windows and then using  
Capistrano to push the project to the Ubuntu server.  
I run MySQL and Mongrel and my Windows box for development and testing.

Ruby comes with plenty of functions to handle the platform differences,  
like  
path building and forking.

You don’t really want to attempt to program on files across the network.  
Visual Studio .Net 2003 did this with ASPX projects. You wouldn’t think  
there would be a big slow down, but you will feel it.

Stephen G.

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**Author:** ![lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lambo4jos)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857/4 "2006-11-07T10:59:42Z")

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This doesn’t answer your question directly. But here is how I’m setup  
for Windows development but then deploying to a Linux box. It works  
both for my home Linux server (some testing/staging) and my host.

I use RadRails for my IDE and run everything from Cygwin except MySQL  
which is under Windows. Here’s the installation:  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsonWindowsCygwin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsonWindowsCygwin)

I’ve made a point of keeping different database.yml files for each  
host. I have a Capistrano task that copies the correct one:  
database.yml.host to database.yml. I also keep a sample database.yml  
in my tree that I allow each developer to tweak as needed for their  
box.

–dwf

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**Author:** ![lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@lambo4jos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lambo4jos)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/networked-windows-development-client-to-linux-server/74857/5 "2006-11-07T10:59:36Z")

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> You don’t really want to attempt to program on files across the network.  
> Visual Studio .Net 2003 did this with ASPX projects. You wouldn’t think  
> there would be a big slow down, but you will feel it.

Huh? Using samba to connect a windows box to a linux box on a local  
network has plenty of speed… if it’s colocated somewhere maybe not,  
but locally it’s just fine. Text files aren’t that big 🙂