Re: Ruby on Linux & Windows

Well, I can tell you I miss a real shell on Windows ... cygwin doesn't really do it for me. :-)

Thanks for the thoughts...

Tim

Robert Oliver wrote:
It might just be me, but Ruby seems to run slower under Windows, in almost every operation. This is just my observation though and may be not the norm.

As far as development platforms for Ruby go, I can tell you from personal experience that Linux has many strong points in its favor towards Ruby development. First off, MySQL seems to feel more at home on Linux than in Windows, and its usually installed on most distributions by default. Secondly, KDE's (and Gnome's to, I'm not sure, I'm a KDE person) ability to use ftp:// and scp:// type filestreams in its file I/O are huge timesavers, and nothing in Windows can come quite close to this.

That being said, if you're more familiar with Windows, its just plain easier to use Windows than Linux. The Windows command line however really in my opinion is just enough to be called a console, and Linux / bash beats this hands down. It just seems easier to develop with Ruby under Linux for me.

That's my $0.025 :)




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