From: x1 <caldridge@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T10:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Linux & Windows

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Perhaps I did not spend enough time with these annoyances but the following=
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aggravated me:

1) I developed a small script to spawn a new process on UNIX, then was able=
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to utilize process signals to kill it accordingly.. When trying it out on=
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windows, it bombed and after reading further, I became more uncomfortable=
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with ruby's win32 process management(or lack thereof)

2) rubyw is useless for me. It's supposed to serve as an alternate version=
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of ruby that runs scripts in the background.. Problem is, if you're running=
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a druby server, for instance, the command line continues to pop up every=20
time the script is called. This could be because my script is doing either=
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IO.popen(), system() or ``, but nevertheless, it's annoying and I have foun=
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no solution to it yet.

3) I could not get the mysql to work period on windows. --could on NIX, but=
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not win32. perhaps it was the version of mysql, compiler, or mysql=20
module.... Not offering solutions, just voicing my opinion..

if anyone has solutions for any of my annoyances, please voice them.. kind=
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regards.

On 8/30/05, Kelly Felkins <railsinator@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The only incompatibility I've found is the mysql host specified in the
> database configuration file. I think on linux you use 'localhost' and on
> windows you have to say 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> <http://127.0.0.1>.=
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> Actually I suspect the
> 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> <http://127.0.0.1> works fine on both.
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> On 8/30/05, Tim Ferrell <Tim.Ferrell@s0nspark.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 th=
e
> > 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 Rub=
y
> > > development. First off, MySQL seems to feel more at home on Linux tha=
n
> > in
> > > Windows, and its usually installed on most distributions by default.
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> 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=
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> 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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