From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2010-09-14T16:42:14+09:00
Subject: Re: What OS do you use for Ruby development?

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:28:50AM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nick Hird <nrhird@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wow, the results were not what i was expecting. I see a lot of Windows
> > environments. I also noticed a lot of Ubuntu users and Mac. Not many
> > other distro's mentioned. Keep them coming!
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> At every Ruby conference and Ruby user group meeting I' ve attended it
> always seems that there are MANY more MacBooks than PC Laptops, AND
> I'd also venture to say that a good proportion of the PC laptops are
> actually running some variant of Linux/BSD or other POSIX OS rather
> than Windows.
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> I have to admit that I have never done any Ruby work on Windows, so I
> can't speak for that experience. The closest I've come is a Rails app
> deployed on Linux which talked to an MSSQL server running in another
> box over a network.

This probably has a lot to do with what people attend Ruby conferences.

Keep in mind that even Macs can run MS Windows, various Linux
distributions, or (le gasp!) BSD Unix.  It's also worth keeping in mind
that people who do all their development on MS Windows may be less likely
to get involved in a tech community in person than online, given the very
different cultures that surround development on different platforms.
Then, of course, there's also the fact that people who use open source
OSes most of the time typically have many more communities to choose from
than those who stick to closed source OSes -- operating system
conferences and user groups, desktop environment communities, et cetera;
many of them (us, as I type this on a ThinkPad running FreeBSD) might be
too busy with their other software-related mailing lists, OS user groups,
and open source conferences to be active on this list or go to Ruby
events very often, even if they code in Ruby all the time.  I know that
describes my situation, off-and-on for this list and constantly for
in-person community events, especially given how far I'd have to go to
fund a RUG near me.  To varying degrees, it also describes others I know
who use Ruby for development.

The statistics you get from this list will be skewed toward people who
are likely to sign up for this list, which may not be representative of
Ruby users in general.  I wonder how much the stats would shake out
differently even just by checking over on the Rails list instead of here.

Point of interest: probably the most widely-used front end to the FreeBSD
ports system is written in Ruby.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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