Steve Mills wrote in post #964833: > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #964825: > >> Your development environment is no concern of your customers. What do >> you mean by "that's what my customers want"? Why do you think you need >> to work on Windows? Remember, you're developing *server-side* >> applications here that have nothing to do with the client OS. > > That's true for just this one aspect of development. I also use > OutSystems which runs on Windows, .NET which requires Windows, Prolog > which runs best on Windows, and build free-standing apps that target > Windows,
Well, Rails runs best on a *nix system. I highly recommend at least a VM. > I build Fusion:Gen apps where the case tools run on Windows, > and Android apps where the tools that I use are Windows based. Uh...WTF? Android development is not platform-specific. Besides, the less you use Windows, the better. If your tools are tying you to Windows, you really need better tools. > > But I guess this is wandering off the point of this thread :) Slightly. But you seem to be under a misapprehension as to how much you *need* to use Windows. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
