From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T20:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: cygwin's Ruby

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:15:36 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:

> I'm curious: why do you discourage usage of cygwin's ruby?

Good question; I actually rarely use my Win32 Ruby install anymore, finding
it much easier to launch everything, including Rails, from cygwin, where
all the gems have no problem building their own extlibs.

I develop in Eclipse, which of course is not a cygwin app, but I just point
it at the cygwin interpreter and forget that I have two separate
environments.  I keep a cygwin bash window open (via rxvt) so I can do irb,
run scripts, etc.

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