I don't think RoR is that bad on Windows. I've used InstantRails on Windows quite successfully for over a year now with only occasional problems with plugins (

I don't think RoR is that bad on Windows. I've used InstantRails on Windows quite successfully for over a year now with only occasional problems with plugins (like Paperclip, though it's fine now). It seems the incompatibilities come from things like capistrano which are quite close to the metal. And that seems reasonable to me. However, expecting new users of your language/framework to delve into the internals just to make their basic app work isn't going to happen. Maybe it should, but it isn't.