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> Ruby on Windows is a nightmare. Nightmare? No. Suboptimal? Yes. We're running some legacy rails 3.2 against oracle db on windows, and it works well enough.
by e12e 7y ago
> Ruby on Windows is a nightmare.
Nightmare? No. Suboptimal? Yes.
We're running some legacy rails 3.2 against oracle db on windows, and it works well enough. It sure is a lot more pleasant on linux, though.
Biggest challenge on windows is to get a c compiler working/get binary dependencies working. Other than that, you need a version manager (same for other platforms really, unless you're aiming to shoot yourself in the foot).
Ruby on windows is definitely not great, but "nightmare" is a bit much.
- JohnBooty 7y agoWe probably agree on an objective level. I would agree with you that nearly all of it works nearly all of the time. But that's my idea of a nightmare - when things are suboptimal and you're often scrambling for solutions on a second-class platform. When I say "often" I don't mean "every day", but in my experience it happened enough to make me swear off Rails on Windows forever. Of course maybe 5.x is different. My experience was in the late 3.x and early 4.x days