From: Vassilis Rizopoulos <eldestdamphyr@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T20:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Developing for Ruby on Windows?

  On 17/09/10 11:53 , Tom Wardrop wrote:
> I've heard a lot of criticism about developing for Ruby on Windows, but
> am yet to see anyone elaborate on this. Can someone enlighten me on why
> developing for Ruby on Windows is considered to be painful?
>
> Cheers
The bulk of my development work is on Windows  and it has been since I 
started using Ruby (way back in the 1.6 days).
The OneClick installer was a blessing but had the known problems, the 
new RubyInstaller is even better and the devkit makes life a lot easier.
The win32-* gems cover most of what people would need with windows 
specific stuff.
The missing fork() and speed are the main concerns. The Ruby interpreter 
on Windows performs abominably - so much so that when I have to work on 
large sets of data I do the work on the Mac.
And all the web servers (webrick, mongrel, thin) perform much better on 
any other platform.
Having said that 95% of the time performance is good enough and the ease 
of expression in Ruby makes up for any windows specific annoyances.
Cheers,
V.-

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