![]() My co-worker has now bought a MacBook, and is enjoying a smoother development experience again.īut you don't need to buy a Mac You would do just as well with dual-booting into Ubuntu (Or similar) on your existing laptop. What's more, many of the sweet tools in the Ruby world are command-line and they work better in a real POSIX shell. Bristol Old Station, Temple Meads is a Grade I listed building in Bristol, City of Bristol, England. ![]() The reality is that Windows is a rare OS among Rubyists, and even if that wasn't so, the Rails framework developers themselves are UNIX-oriented, so there is an order of magnitude less scrutiny given to testing and development on the platform. Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria. Getting the environment setup is a pain, and even when you do, it's stressful because you never know when you are going to hit the next bizarro Windows-only bug. So this is Ruby on Rails running in WSL, as browsed to from Windows, using the new Edge with Chromium at its heart. He has had a number of blocking issues that have wasted many hours of his time - for example he hasn't been able to run any of our RSpec tests, and some Rake tasks. He's been using the same tools and Rails 3 codebase as myself (I'm on Mac OS X). I have recently been working with another developer that has been developing on his Windows laptop. ![]()
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