Ruby certainly can do SQLite3 on Windows, quite well under 1.8.6 and 1.8.7, but as the article's author notes, it's just troublesome under 1.9. (But enough othe

Ruby certainly can do SQLite3 on Windows, quite well under 1.8.6 and 1.8.7, but as the article's author notes, it's just troublesome under 1.9. (But enough other stuff doesn't work quite right in 1.9 yet either anyway.) The setup for dev on Windows is pretty simple as you can see from http://napcs.com/howto/rails/windows/ http://napcs.com/howto/rails/windows/ As it stands now, with the latest installer for Windows, Rails development is quite possible. Msysgit works fine, SQLIte, Rails, all of it works great, it's just slower. In fact, I've been using Windows for Rails dev for nearly 5 years - I'm even crazy enough to have deployed production apps on Windows servers. (out of necessity, not out of choice, but it's a neat skillset to have, and I was able to contribute a chapter on Rails + Windows to http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_deploy/deploying-rails-applications http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_deploy/deploying-rails-applica... which, oddly enough, is still relevant.) HOWEVER, I will state that if you're looking to truly leverage Ruby, nix is the way to go. A VM like this works great, but I also recommend two pieces: Putty to act as your console * SAMBA on the VM so you can have a share. I used a setup like this for a while for LAMP development before I started doing Rails.