I haven't had a chance to try this out, but it looks very promising. http://railsinstaller.org/ it was featured in an article on Ruby Inside http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-installer-ruby-and-rails-on-windows-in-a-single-install-4201.html
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:05 PM, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com>wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Ben Giordano <benjamintgiord...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Looking to learn Rails but hoping to stick with Win7/xp as all of the >> machines I work on run one of those two OSs. Would hate to be stuck to >> my laptop for development b/c its the only machine I have running >> ubuntu. Am I shooting myself in the foot by trying to learn rails on >> windows? >> > > No, but starting out use Instant Rails or the like.... even though when you > are learning even getting things fully working on Mac can take a bit of a > learning curve, but at least on Mac you have a lot of support.... that said, > if you really fall in love with Rails, do ditch windows and if you have the > choice avoid deploying on Windows server, do it! Also you may want to > consider using a Linux vm (i.e. Ubuntu) on your windows machines... another > option. > > > >> >> -- >> >> 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<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@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-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@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-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.
