Developing in Ruby on Windows [closed]

Answer 1

This may not be applicable in your situation (IT restrictions, etc), but another option might be virtualization. You could install VirtualBox, VMWare, or some equivalent, and run Ubuntu (or your preferred Linux distribution, of course) that way, gaining access to the full UNIX toolset.

Answer 2

Cygwin as command line tool

Answer 3

I use virtual box, putty, and xming to do the development in an isolated linux environment. I blogged the full setup here

Answer 4

git is available on Windows: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ or http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_on_Windows

Basically, you need to decide whether you are going to go the Cygwin route or the MingW route. Both will provide you with Bash as well.

GVim works great. I use the native port rather than the Cygwin version.