From: Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T19:52:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting

On 11/19/05, Mauricio Fern叩ndez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:12:23PM +0900, Rawn027 wrote:> > Which is the best OS to use for ruby development...My vote goes to Mac> > OS X?>> matz uses Debian ;-)
Lots of people happen to like FreeBSD for its Ruby support. One of itsmajor system utilities, portupgrade, is written in Ruby, so that's oneneat aspect. I'd recommend staying away from Gentoo: I prefersource-based OSs, but Gentoo just breaks too often for it to be worthit. Also, Gentoo users are on the whole jerkyer and less helpful thannormal people. FreeBSD gives you the exact same control, with muchmore stability at the expense of a bit of user-friendiness. If youknow what you're doing, it's a really productive environment thatwon't break unless you do something stupid. I like it ;-)
I actually haven't tried Debian much (I know! *Gasp*!) but like Isaid, I prefer source-based distros. That said, Ubuntu is runningmarvellously on my thinkpad right now, which is my main developmentmachine. You can get Ruby binaries apt-get'ed, but lighttpd you'llhave to compile and install by hand or install from a .deb packge(find 'em by googling). Sure, it's not all set up to go, but that'snot necesarily a bad thing (and it's pretty simple anyways).
That said, take this all with a grain of salt and some sugar. Andmaybe a taco or two.
Jacob
>> --> Mauricio Fernandez>>