From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-10-05T00:18:59+09:00 Subject: Re: cygwin's Ruby Garry Offord wrote: > It's good to know that somebody has successfully done this. I've tried in > the past with mixed results - there seemed to be issues with the "DOS" path > separators "\" vs.the cygwin "/" but I can't remember the specifics. > > You have inspired me to try again! > > On 10/4/07, Jay Levitt wrote: >> 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. >> >> -- >> Jay Levitt | >> Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they >> Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. >> http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer >> >> > Cygwin is a crutch. It's a damn good crutch -- don't get me wrong about that. But quite frankly, if you want to develop Windows applications, use native Windows tools. If you want to develop LAMP applications, use LAMP, not Cygwin emulating LAMP. However ... specific to Ruby, now that Curt Hibbs has found it difficult to find the time to donate to the One-Click Installer and/or Instant Rails, there is a gap that needs to be filled. I'd hate to see Cygwin being the only alternative, and I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a Windows developer ready to step in with a true Windows MRI Ruby/Rails solution. I'm guessing this answer isn't going to please a lot of people, but in my opinion, your realistic options on a Windows platform are probably jRuby and IronRuby, in that order. jRuby is in great shape as far as I can tell, and it might well be faster than Cygwin Ruby by now. I'll let John Lam speak for the status of IronRuby, but for now it looks like jRuby is a few months ahead of it.