Since this question seems to get asked every now and then, I thought I'd just chime in...
I've been developing happily on Windows for the last 3 years. Every now and then there might be a small issue, but otherwise it hasn't been as painful as many would have you believe. I do have an Ubuntu virtual machine that I play around on as well, but you can totally get by using Windows. The only limitation is that there is a lack of something like RVM for Windows (unless I've missed something). So if you're dealing with rails apps that require you chopping and changing between versions of Ruby, you'll want to look at that Ubuntu virtual machine. When it comes to production, it makes no sense to use Windows. You'd really have to be into that whole self-whipping thing. I've been using Heroku exclusively for the last year, and could not be happier. It really is all that. If you DO NEED to use Windows for production, consider switching to ASP.NET MVC... your life will almost certainly be easier. Cheers :) James On Nov 15, 3:58 pm, Javier Quarite <jquari...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are several, good reasons as to why you should not use > > RoRails on Windows. I do not have time to enumerate all of them, except to > > say that RoRails runs much, much better on Linux or Mac OS than on Windows. > > As for myself, I am still running RoRails on my Windows laptop, but shall > > revert to running RoRails on Ubuntu as soon as I have updated my Ubuntu > > laptop. > > > Just avoid using RoR on Windows if you can. > > > Is one of those reasons the fact that when you type rails s, it goes very > > very slow? or is it just me? > It is not useful I think to use windows as a production server, I don't > know if any uses windows only for development > > Javier -- 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.
