From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-11-19T22:05:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting On 11/19/05, Rawn027 wrote: > Which is the best OS to use for ruby development...My vote goes to Mac > OS X? Which OS do you find best for development? That will give you your answer. I develop PDF::Writer entirely on Windows. When I get around to purchasing a MacOS X laptop, I will probably shift my development of PDF::Writer to the Mac (or it might be both Mac and Win since I'm planning on getting a macintel). I find that I develop for the Ruby platform. [...] On 11/19/05, Timothy Goddard wrote: > Ruby is, I believe, primarily designed for use with Linux, although > the code is highly portable. I'm not sure that's true. In fact, I think it would be fair to say that no, Ruby is not "primarily designed for use with Linux". It is designed as a cross-platform language. Debian Linux is Matz's primary development environment and there are a lot of Linux users, but the "many eyeballs" theory definitely applies, as bugs with AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and less popular platforms get noticed relatively quickly, even if they aren't necessarily fixed quickly because of developers' limited access to some of those boxes. Indeed, I will be adding new features to the Windows implementation of Ruby in the not-too-distant future because I have access to that as a development platform. By and large, though, I personally would prefer to run on FreeBSD or MacOS X than any version of Linux, but especially Debian. I know Matz uses Debian, but there have been quality issues with Debian's Ruby support in the past and while the current situation is *better*, it's still not (IMO) good enough. On 11/19/05, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > 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. Precisely! -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca