If you’re going to be using windows and all you are doing is
development, then you don’t need to go through the extra trouble of
running apache. The webrick server can be started after creating a
rails application and works great for development.
the same can be said for the Unices though too…
I think you will find that either OS X or another unix/linux variant
will be a better development box then windows would be. Windows is
not the optimal platform for rails.
-Ezra