From: matthew.hivner@...
Date: 2005-11-19T19:55:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting

The only problem I've run into so far on OS X is (and it could be my
fault, I'm not sure) terminal.app's poor handling of ncurses (and thus
ruby-ncurses).

--matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Hammerquist [mailto:penryu@vegeta.ath.cx] 
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 1:52 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting

Rawn027 <Rawn027@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which is the best OS to use for ruby development...My vote
> goes to Mac OS X?

I have a great time developing Ruby on both OS X and FreeBSD.
I don't happen to have any Linux boxen at the moment, but last
time I did, it worked really well.

For me, any system that has vim and a ruby installation is
ideal.

> What would be considered the best environment for hosting ruby
> and rails? Mac? FreeBSD? Gentoo?

I like OS X as a desktop and/or development system, where tools
like CocoaMySQL make short work of things which can be tedious
on other systems.  But OS X is large, bulky, and sluggish and,
to a lesser extent, the G4 PPC platform is not optimized for
data throughput.

For performance, I've found recent versions of FreeBSD to be
increasingly snappy, and they keep fairly current versions of
most of their packages.

Next to FreeBSD, I have to say I think Debian has the most
streamlined package management system, making it ridiculously
simple to keep an up-to-date system.  In the past, Debian has
been somewhat slow to update packages, but they've gotten better
about this in recent years.

Both these platforms offer an enormous array of software ready
to build and/or install.

My USD$0.05,
Tim