From: Iain Davis <feaelin@...>
Date: 2010-09-14T23:56:53+09:00
Subject: Re: What OS do you use for Ruby development?

Depends on which machine and circumstance.

Any of these:

On the desktop machine:
1) Windows XP, using Emacs-Windows32-nxhtml as my editor
2) Windows XP, using Emacs-Windows32-nxhtml as my editor, but ruby
(and rails) running on a Slackware Linux Machine, which I use Putty
(and screen) to issue the shell commands.

On the laptop:
3) Windows 7, using Emacs-Windows32-nxhtml as my editor.
4) Windows 7, using Emacs-Windows32-nxhtml as my editor, but ruby (and
rails) running on the Slackware Linux Machine, which I use Putty (and
screen) to issue the shell commands.
5) Fedora 13 in a VM-Workstation VM (VM-Workstation running on top of
Windows 7), *ix Emacs+nxhtml as my editor.

I tend toward using the laptop, since I can use it in more places, and
development doesn't need the kind of hardware I have in the PC.

I don't currently have a functional Mac; I've considered buying a new
license for the OS and installing it in a VM-Machine, but I've not got
around to it.

Iain