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So, the best way to set up Rails on Windows is not to set up Rails directly on Windows, but in Linux VM. Maybe it's not such a bad thing.
by flixic 14y ago
So, the best way to set up Rails on Windows is not to set up Rails directly on Windows, but in Linux VM.
Maybe it's not such a bad thing.
- flomo 14y agoI've learned this the hard way. Your production environment is probably going to be Linux, so you will need to know that setup & have deployment tools regardless. Setting up Windows (or even OS X in certain respects) is just an additional hassle which will never quite match production.
- derefr 14y agoSeems I have cause to post this in quite a few threads these days: > These days, it seems like POSIX has become just another VM environment, like Smalltalk, Erlang, the JVM or the CLR. Mingw/Cygwin doesn't run *nix programs "on" Windows, really; it just provides them with a really half-assed VM implementation. Why not instead just go all the way and run, say, Ubuntu Server in a headless VMware appliance? If nothing else, it gives your spare cores something to do :)