Re: Best Rails environment for Windows 7

Phoenix Rising
Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:33:00 -0000

Others have mentioned railsinstaller, which I highly recommend if
you''re just getting started.  However, in my *personal* opinion, if
you''re going to get serious about Rails development, you really need
some form of a *nix machine.  The reason is that historically
speaking, Rubyists have been somewhat...reluctant to fully test and
support various ruby libraries on Windows.  The architectures are just
so different and all.  That doesn''t mean Ruby CAN''T work on
Windows,
just that you may wind up running into more weird "one-off" bugs than
it''s worth.

You can download Ubuntu 10.10 (I agree with Colin''s post about 11.04
having a few potential issues since it''s so new) and VMWare Player
absolutely free.  Use VMWare player (or there''s also Oracle Virtual
Box as well, either one works) to set up a new Ubuntu Linux (or
there''s Fedora, Gentoo, ArchLinux, etc. etc.) under Windows 7, then
launch that, and do your ruby development in there.

This is the approach I''m starting to use more and more these days
myself.  If you have a mac, or have some hackintosh compatible
hardware, you can install OS X or the hackintosh version (look for
torrents and get it that way).  Nobody''s taking responsibility for
laws broken or stuff that breaks, etc. etc. blah blah blah (damn over-
lawyering).

Good luck man.  If you''re just getting your feet wet to see what
it''s
like, I recommend the Rails Installer route already linked.  If you''re
looking to get serious, go with a VM.

On Apr 27, 7:26 am, Chief
<chie...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> What is the best and easiest way of running Ruby on Rails on a Windows
> 7 machine?
>
> I really want to learn Rails, but I haven''t found any easy way of
> installing it on Windows 7.

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