I have been developing in Windows for a while now and it's true that there is no much support or love for it in the RoR world. If you really want to keep going with Windows, though, if I were you I would get the rubyinstaller and DevKit right away from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads. To install DevKit follow instructions at https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit.
Most of the problems I have had working with Windows were because of the DB adapters. To work with MS SQL you will need 2 gems: activerecord-sqlserver-adapter ruby-odbc Working with MS SQL you will probably want to stick to ODBC so you will need to create a System DSN. In Windows 7 first try to create it the regular way but it probably will not work. If it does not work then you will need to delete what you just created and then use the executable at C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe. This is the 32-bit version. To work with Oracle you will also need 2 gems: activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter ruby-oci8 Good luck On Jan 21, 7:06 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? -- 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.
