From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-09-10T01:11:56+09:00
Subject: Re: What OS do you use for Ruby development?

On Sep 9, 12:53 pm, Julian Browne <julianbro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Like a lot of Rubyists I came to the language at the same time I got into
> Rails. InstantRails was quite popular at the time so I defaulted to Windows
> because it was just so easy to get and entire db/web server/rails
> environment up and running. Textpad has always been a favourite editor of
> mine so I kind of stuck with that. Even now I'll still occasionally use that
> stack (XAMPP now instead of InstantRails) but it's become harder and harder
> to stick with Windows as my use of specific gems has grown. I cracked too
> eventually and went down the Mac route which is yards better.
>

Interesting and helpful response. I was wondering the timeframe on
which you used Ruby and had these issues.

You see, we develop this thing called RubyInstaller which tries to
simplify both installation and usage of Ruby and its gems by better
documentation and building tool kit.

We can't provide packages as InstantRails, but the tools are available
for others to package and distribute.

I know, off topic, but still interested to hear that.

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Luis Lavena