Developing in Ruby on Windows [closed]

Answer 1

I've struggled a lot with Rails development on Windows. At some point I needed a specific gem that didn't work on Windows. I prefer working with a VM using Vagrant

Here's a blog post I wrote, how I setup my projects with the use of Chef and Vagrant

Answer 2

The two best RoR IDE's I've used are NetBeans and Aptana Studio. However, for the most part I stick with Notepad++ and its various plugins (Explorer and HTML tags being two important ones).

Answer 3

I developed in RoR under Windows for a few years, it's bearable, but Linux (or Mac) is much better for this. Lots of gems and plugins are considerably harder to install on Windows (quixml, for example).

My favorite text editor under Windows is Textpad, Eclipse is also pretty good.

If you want to use ls, find, grep... in Windows console, just download some package of their Win32 ports, install them and add to your PATH (Cygwin is definitely better, but also harder to install). You might also try out Powershell, it's supposed to be a replacement for unix command line by Microsoft.

Answer 4

I am using Netbeans, which is a good overall editor (at least for me).

For simple projects I use JEdit.

You can find the link at NetBeans IDE

You can find JEdit at JEdit

Answer 5

Maybe bring a LiveCD to work with you every morning..

you can even put it on a usb flash drive, if you use a small enough distro/big enough drive...

Answer 6

If your development life is switching to Windows then you may want your employer to invest in this:

Ruby In Steel by SapphireSteel Software

I've used it in the past when I started tinkering with Ruby on Rails, quite nice and reasonably mature now. Also it's built on Visual Studio which I still think is one of the premier development environments around.