From: Timothy Goddard <interfecus@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T17:52:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting

Ruby is, I believe, primarily designed for use with Linux, although the
code is highly portable. Since Linux is the primary development
platform, it may also have the fastest bug fixing and the most thorough
testing. As a result, your best bet for hosting would be a server-grade
Linux OS such as RHEL, CentOS, or the server versions of other
distributions.

For development, consistency with your hosting platform may or may not
be a concern. You can probably use anything here, but if your rails app
relies on some more advanced libraries you may be best off with linux
again, as package management makes that side of things much simpler and
you can ensure that both are running exactly the same libraries.

Other similar unices such as BSDs are also likely to work well. Mac OS
X would OK as well.