From: Robert Oliver <rwoliver2@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T09:13:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Linux & Windows

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It might just be me, but Ruby seems to run slower under Windows, in almost=
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every operation. This is just my observation though and may be not the norm=
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As far as development platforms for Ruby go, I can tell you from personal=
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experience that Linux has many strong points in its favor towards Ruby=20
development. First off, MySQL seems to feel more at home on Linux than in=
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Windows, and its usually installed on most distributions by default.=20
Secondly, KDE's (and Gnome's to, I'm not sure, I'm a KDE person) ability to=
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use ftp:// and scp:// type filestreams in its file I/O are huge timesavers,=
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and nothing in Windows can come quite close to this.

That being said, if you're more familiar with Windows, its just plain easie=
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to use Windows than Linux. The Windows command line however really in my=20
opinion is just enough to be called a console, and Linux / bash beats this=
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hands down. It just seems easier to develop with Ruby under Linux for me.

That's my $0.025 :)

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Robert W. Oliver II
CEO / President - OCS Solutions, Inc.
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http://www.ocssolutions.com/

Ruby Forums - http://www.rubyforums.com/

On 8/30/05, Tim Ferrell <Tim.Ferrell@s0nspark.com> wrote:
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> I'm not trying to start anything here but I'd like some feedback from=20
> those of
> you who are working with Ruby on both Linux *and* Windows.
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> Our server platform is Linux (with a few legacy Windows servers here and=
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> there)
> and my current development platform is Windows XP, which I grudgingly=20
> switched
> to work on a project that has since been postponed indefinitely... Since =
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> am
> going to be working primarily on server and web apps (with occasional=20
> client
> utilities) I thought this might be a good time to evaluate whether I=20
> should
> switch back to Linux or some form of Unix.
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> I am comfortable enough on either platform, but being somewhat new to Rub=
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> I do
> have a couple of nagging questions...
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> 1. Are there any major hurdles to writing portable code across platforms=
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> 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=20
> Linux?
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> 2. Is one platform notably better supported by Ruby at the system level?=
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> Are
> there features I won't be able to use on Windows that are available on=20
> Linux?
> (syscall comes to mind... anything else?)
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> Sorry, I know these questions are somewhat vague...
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> Thanks for any help,
> Tim
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>  <http://www.rubyforums.com/>

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