On 09 Feb 2009, at 16:53, Freddy Andersen wrote: > Would you change your car if your professional race-car driver friend > said that a ferrari is the way to go?
If I had the money for it I might seriously consider it :-) > Personally I use a mac with Text-mate and love it. However I did not > switch to my mac just because someone feels its the better platform to > develop with. All joking aside, sometimes trusting someone else's judgement should be taken into consideration. There comes a certain point in Rails development on Windows where frustrations and hurdles trying to get certain niche gems to work (or even quite frequently used gems) get the upper hand. Yet, even in those hard times, some people might find it very hard getting out of that comfort zone of "knowing the OS inside and out". Biting the bullet and either buying a Mac or switching to Linux for development in Rails' context is a wise choice imho and the learning curve for either OS is far less steep than most people think. The fact that there's such a strong voice within the community to either opt for MacOS or Linux should be reassuring. But hey, that's just my personal opinion. Best regards Peter De Berdt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
