Is Ruby and Rails available as first class citizen on Windows OS? Is
there any reason why I should not use Ruby or Ruby on Rails on a Windows
OS?
We have having few issues with Ruby on windows so I am just trying to
understand if there are large number of production applications on
Windows?
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 17:53, jawaid ekram [email protected]
wrote:
Is Ruby and Rails available as first class citizen on Windows OS? Is
there any reason why I should not use Ruby or Ruby on Rails on a
Windows OS?
If Windows is all you have, it will do OK. It’s just that for
development (of anything other than Windows-specific software), or for
server usage (of anything other than MS technology stacks or stuff
specifically to support Windows), Windows is usually a rather poor
choice. (Not to knock it completely; it’s a perfectly fine OS for
non-technical end-users, it runs on much cheaper hardware than Macs,
and Visual Studio is fairly good.) Thus, most Ruby geeks are already
running Macs and/or Linux – often developing on Mac lappies and then
deploying to a Linux server.
-Dave
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On 11/14/2011 5:53 PM, jawaid ekram wrote:
Is Ruby and Rails available as first class citizen on Windows OS? Is
there any reason why I should not use Ruby or Ruby on Rails on a Windows
OS?
There are several, good reasons as to why you should not use RoRails
on
Windows. I do not have time to enumerate all of them, except to say that
RoRails runs much, much better on Linux or Mac OS than on Windows. As
for myself, I am still running RoRails on my Windows laptop, but shall
revert to running RoRails on Ubuntu as soon as I have updated my Ubuntu
laptop.
Just avoid using RoR on Windows if you can.
Sincerely,
Paul Bain
I am a systems admin and can concur with everything Dave said below. I
have been using RoR for several years and various jobs and can say if
you put it windows for production traffic you are shooting yourself in
the foot.
Nes++
On 14 November 2011 22:53, jawaid ekram [email protected] wrote:
Is Ruby and Rails available as first class citizen on Windows OS? Is
there any reason why I should not use Ruby or Ruby on Rails on a Windows
OS?We have having few issues with Ruby on windows so I am just trying to
understand if there are large number of production applications on
Windows?
I think many would say the Windows is not the best choice for
development or production. I use Ubuntu.
Colin
Is one of those reasons the fact that when you type rails s, it goes very
very slow? or is it just me?
It is not useful I think to use windows as a production server, I don’t
know if any uses windows only for development
Javier
On 14 November 2011 22:53, jawaid ekram [email protected] wrote:>
Is there any reason why I should not use Ruby or Ruby on Rails on a
Windows OS?
Because most Rails developers use something other than Windows, so if
you start by trying to use Win, you’re already fighting against the
flow, and there’s less people likely to be able to help you.
We have having few issues with Ruby on windows so I am just trying to
understand if there are large number of production applications on
Windows?
The only production sites I’ve come across using Windows have used
development tools like InstantRails or RubyStack as their platform - a
very bad choice. They’ve normally done this because they didn’t have
the inclination to invest in the knowledge (it’s really a fairly
simple learning curve, or a cheap resource to out-source…) of how to
get it running on *nix, and as such have left their sites running very
vulnerably.
On 15 November 2011 08:26, Colin L. [email protected] wrote:
I think many would say the Windows is not the best choice for
development or production. I use Ubuntu.
+1
On Nov 16, 2011, at 5:43 AM, James wrote:
between versions of Ruby, you’ll want to look at that Ubuntu virtual
machine.
You’ve missed pik
(but I develop on Mac OSX so I’ve never used it)
-Rob
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Since this question seems to get asked every now and then, I thought
I’d just chime in…
I’ve been developing happily on Windows for the last 3 years. Every
now and then there might be a small issue, but otherwise it hasn’t
been as painful as many would have you believe. I do have an Ubuntu
virtual machine that I play around on as well, but you can totally get
by using Windows. The only limitation is that there is a lack of
something like RVM for Windows (unless I’ve missed something). So if
you’re dealing with rails apps that require you chopping and changing
between versions of Ruby, you’ll want to look at that Ubuntu virtual
machine.
When it comes to production, it makes no sense to use Windows. You’d
really have to be into that whole self-whipping thing. I’ve been using
Heroku exclusively for the last year, and could not be happier. It
really is all that.
If you DO NEED to use Windows for production, consider switching to
ASP.NET MVC… your life will almost certainly be easier.
Cheers 
James
I do embedded software development for many systems and I am very
familiar with Windows cross compilers, etc.
I like having all the Windows tools at my beck and call. When I can,
I use ‘E’ as my default editor.
But developing RoR for native Windows, not!!
I do, however, use Windows tools to manage the Linux development. I
use Samba to expose my Mint development box’s file system on my
Windows desktop and I use a VPN to pull the Mint desktop into a window
on my Windows box.
Best of both worlds: I can keep my Mint box setup simple to mirror my
ISP’s environment and still use all the Windows tools I am used to.
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