From: Ed Howland <ed.howland@...>
Date: 2010-09-16T02:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: What OS do you use for Ruby development?

Thanks, Charles.

Is the mingw component now builtin to RubyInstaller?

Cheers,
Ed

Ed Howland
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Charles Roper
<reachme@charlesroper.co.uk> wrote:
> Windows 7 x64 and Windows XP
> RubyInstaller versions of Ruby 1.9.2 and 1.8.7 + DevKit + Pik
> JRuby 1.5.2
> Cygwin w/Ruby 1.8.7
> Console 2
> TCC LE 11
> E Text Editor 2
>
> I sometimes use Ubuntu in a VirtualBox VM, but as Ruby on Windows has
> improved so drastically since switching to mingw (Thanks to the
> sterling work of Luis and the rest of the RubyInstaller team), I've
> found I don't need it so much any more.
>
> Charles
>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Nick Hird <nrhird@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
>>> you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Nick
>>>
>>>
>>
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