Honestly im running rubymine on mac since it seems as a better web development tool than a windows machine, but considering that all you do with "deploying" rai

Honestly im running rubymine on mac since it seems as a better web development tool than a windows machine, but considering that all you do with "deploying" rails apps in development mode is reload a browser and that Rubymine supports remote debugging quite well, I dont see why you wouldnt be able to edit your source tree in a mounted drive while running your server in the VM. This way you dont have to deal with memory/hd swap implications of running a fairly memory hungry app inside a memory hungry virtualization layer.