# RE: The perfect development environment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 5, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522 "2006-05-05T19:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/1 "2006-05-05T19:45:24Z")
I don’t want to start a flame war here, but I have been developing quite a few applications on a Windows box, and haven’t run into any issues at all. Installing mySql, ruby, and rails were all extremely simple. While I agree that Windows is not an optimal platform to host Rails applications, I don’t agree that it is not a good environment to develop Rails apps on. Just my 2 cents… ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/2 "2006-05-05T20:00:53Z")
not to add fuel to the fire… (mac and linux at home, windows at work) I’m developing on windows too and have no problem with instant rails. but do to my lack of knowledge in servers I am having a hard time getting lighttpd to run my app in prod. I am a total nuby to ruby. (but I have a nice tagging app (with an ACL) ready for production) ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/3 "2006-05-05T20:16:19Z")
Windows is a perfectly fine platform for developing Rails applications. Just use Mongrel or Webrick for your web server. +1 on using Subversion -1 on RadRails (shameless plug for my own work here: [Setting up a Rails Development Environment on Windows Using Eclipse | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC](http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows.html)) but only because I think the setup I have is more flexible for now. Don’t get me wrong… there’s lots I like about RadRails. ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/4 "2006-05-05T20:16:26Z")
John: I can probably help with your lighttpd issue if you want to email me offline or start a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/5 "2006-05-05T20:47:18Z")
Are you talking about rmagick not working only on Windows? I have rmagick working perfectly on my Linux production server using ruby 1.8.4. Rob ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/6 "2006-05-05T21:06:10Z")
Yes, only on windows it does not work with that particular combination of version. ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/7 "2006-05-05T20:35:03Z")
there are currently two ugly things (for me) when developing in windows: rmagick does not work with ruby 1.8.4 and sqlite has not jdbc driver for radrails. ---
**Author:** ![CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CampanoS\_David](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CampanoS_David)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-perfect-development-environment/94522/8 "2006-05-05T21:16:23Z")
I think it’s important to look at more than just your editor, server and command line when choosing a development environment. Rarely do we develop code as individuals. Most often we develop in small teams of developers or business analysts and as such collaboration is incredibly important. I personally use a Mac for this reason with it’s build in iChatAV for video conferencing and Remote Desktop to share screens. Working as a telecommuter on most projects these two tools have saved me numerous plane rides. I also like the Mac since it has a nice \*nix layer underneath. Just wanted to point out that a development environment includes more than just an editor and command line. Matt