why not use the best of both worlds, i.e. run both linux and os x at the same time via virtualization. i develop rails on ubuntu in a virtual machine on top of

why not use the best of both worlds, i.e. run both linux and os x at the same time via virtualization. i develop rails on ubuntu in a virtual machine on top of os x, works great, but then again i do have 16G memory, 8G is probably the minimum. and there are great tools to get ruby 1.9+ working on mac, but i prefer to run code on the production os so running virtualbox, vmware fusion, or parallels works wonders, try it out.