Macs are by fat the easiest way to get going in rails/ruby because it's there out of the box. A few gem commands and you're rockin' and rollin'. Windows and Linux are easy to set up too but require a bit more setup work.
Ubuntu is good but you have to use the stuff in the repositories by default which is ok but not as good as issuing gem commands. Chances are good that you'll deploy to *nix so you might as well learn to develop on it too Also macs are just way nicer to work on day-to-day. I see slot more java devs using macs too these days. -- Steven Elliott Jr On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Jim Knowlton <jknowlton...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a QA engineer who works in Ruby quite a bit, and I've never been > able to figure out...why is there a disproportionately large > contingent of Mac users among Ruby developers? Macs are probably 10 > percent of the computer market, but every time I go to a Ruby > conference, probably 80 percent of the laptops there are Macs. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > > 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- > t...@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 > . > > -- 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-t...@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.
