[Rails] Re: Development Environment (Beginners Question)?

2010-08-02 Thread Agoofin
I use Windows Vista for a lot of my RoR development as it's convenient for me with my current setup even though I run an Ubuntu box as well. Not everything works in windows, as you might expect, but 95% of it does. This is with a regular ruby install, no instant rails- which is out of date. You w

[Rails] Re: Development Environment (Beginners Question)?

2010-08-01 Thread Yiannis
I was developing in windows for a long time but it had many constrains and problems. The best advice is of Michael Pavling, to use a machine similar to the server that you will do the deployment. I can't give up windows so I installed a ubuntu 10.04 server edition in a virtual machine and it is wor