I really don't understand why giving so many importance to Hardware and Software.
What really matters IMHO is People and his Ideas, from Matz to we all. I have written something about that here: http://marcricblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/ruby-on-rails-for-sale-under-2500.html And here: http://marcricblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-matters-most-size-or-pleasure.html I do use Windows so far with no problems (thanks to Luis Lavena), if I need to change for any reason, will never go to an even more proprietary O.S. (OS-X only runs on Mac hardware...), will go to any Linux flavor in a hardware of my choice and budget. Regards. On Dec 14, 2:20 pm, byrnejb <byrn...@harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > On Dec 4, 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. > > Most people learn by example. I suspect that the reason most Rubyists > use Mac's is because the people they learned Ruby from (and/or admired > for their Ruby skills) used Mac's. Why those people used Mac's is > anyone's guess, but I would speculate that there exists a strong > 'contrarian' trait in many early adopters. Mac's are THE great > 'contrarian' IT statement. This trait may also possibly account for > why the early adopters picked up the Ruby language to begin with. > > Personally, I have worked with Ruby on all three of the major Ruby > development platforms (Linux, OS-X and MS-Windows XP). I simply do > not see all that much difference between them, ONCE one has customized > each environment to ones own taste. To be frank, I have never really > taken to Apple's 'Aqua/Finder' windowing environment and that is one > of the reasons (out of very, very many) that I found MS-Vista so > repellent. > > On my MS-Windows laptop I use the CYGWIN environment together with VIM > (windows installer version with the vivid_chalk plugin) and POSTGRESQL > (also the windows installer version). Between the three of these I > essentially have an identical duplicate of my CentOS-5.4 desktop > environment wherever I travel. Since most of my business associates > (nearly all non-developer, non-IT types) use MS-Windows themselves, > this arrangement allows me to easily work within their corporate > standard MS-windows products on site and yet still retain the > convenience of a Linux-like environment for everything else. -- 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.
