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Re:My time with Rails is up by Ericson2314 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @04:45PM (#11750212)
If a Linux VM is fine for deployment, well then that specific component doesn't really need or use Windows very much does it. (That all unixy things need to put in VMs on a host running Windows is a very different constraint.)

If it's important to deploy as a Windows process, then the Windows Linux subsystem is not much better than a VM. Point is, its no substitute for a (better) MSYS2/Cygwin.

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Re:My time with Rails is up by rhizome on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:12PM (#11774495)
I think I understand your point, and it's been a while since my MCSE expired, but unless Cygwin has improved a lot I would estimate a VM wrapped by Windows would be much easier to manage and admin.

Now if you're saying that the webapp itself would be required to be a Windows process, there's really no way around that. But as I implied elsewhere, the biggest stumbler for Rails on Windows has always been the lack of a compiler. Whether you compensate for that by installing a subsystem with that capability or by using a VM with the capability is largely a local problem to the company.

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