Ruby on Linux & Windows

I'm not trying to start anything here but I'd like some feedback from those of you who are working with Ruby on both Linux *and* Windows.

Our server platform is Linux (with a few legacy Windows servers here and there) and my current development platform is Windows XP, which I grudgingly switched to work on a project that has since been postponed indefinitely... Since I am going to be working primarily on server and web apps (with occasional client utilities) I thought this might be a good time to evaluate whether I should switch back to Linux or some form of Unix.

I am comfortable enough on either platform, but being somewhat new to Ruby I do have a couple of nagging questions...

1. Are there any major hurdles to writing portable code across platforms with Ruby? If I stick with Windows on my dev boxes will I have to do a lot of platform checks to make sure things work properly on both Windows and Linux?

2. Is one platform notably better supported by Ruby at the system level? Are there features I won't be able to use on Windows that are available on Linux? (syscall comes to mind... anything else?)

Sorry, I know these questions are somewhat vague...

Thanks for any help,
Tim



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