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I tried learning Ruby on Rails on Windows 7. It mostly worked, until it didn't. When I asked others around for help, and it became clear I'd done some newb th
by amorphid 10y ago
I tried learning Ruby on Rails on Windows 7. It mostly worked, until it didn't. When I asked others around for help, and it became clear I'd done some newb thing to generate an un-google-able error, I was on my own. No one I knew developed on Windows. After being stuck enough times with maybe-Windows-specific errors, I decided I need a Mac.
- davidf18 10y agoWindow 10 Anniversary update has bash shell based on Ubuntu 14.06 integrated in Windows. I ran it from Parallels VM on my Mac and it works well.
- truth_sentinell 10y agoI don't understand how it could be a problem to do RoR in windows?
- amorphid 10y agoSome gems reference Posix specific things. And your Gemfile.lock may include the platform upon which Bundler was run, be it Windows or Posix, and that can be a problem when trying to install gems on a different platform. And some nice utilities, such as Ruby version managers, don't work on Windows.