Any thoughts on this? I am contemplating a switch from a Windows
platform to Linux. Thanks!
Well, I’ve been using Windows for development from the start and
deploying
to Linux. The only issues I’ve ever encountered were small and usually
involve things outside of the Rails app. Like a gem not working on
Windows
or differences with programs like ImageMagick or whatever. Nothing has
been
a deal breaker. I use Aptana RadRails for development and everything is
pretty easy going.
Raul
----- Original Message -----
From: “Cheri R.” [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:25 AM
Subject: [Rails-deploy] Windows or Linux for RoR Development
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Cheri R.
[email protected] wrote:
Any thoughts on this? I am contemplating a switch from a Windows
platform to Linux. Thanks!
Definitely Linux, both for development and production.
Reasons:
- Ruby is much faster on Linux (2-3 times difference when running
tests for a Rails app) - No messing around with slashes and backslashes in file paths.
- MICH better command-line environment (which is relatively more
important for Ruby development - many Ruby dev tools have no GUI). - Pretty much all Ruby libraries are developed on either Linux or
Mac. Therefore, many have idiosyncrasies It’s pretty common to see
“Subtle Windows bug fixed” as a CHANGELOG entry for version X.Y.1 of
any library. - Building native gems on Windows is just pain.
It’s possible to do Ruby development (and even production deployment)
on Windows, but Linux is certainly more convenient.
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Alexey V.
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