Developing Rails apps on Windows (the joyful way)

Re:Developing Rails apps on Windows (the joyful way) by gcampbell on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @09:38PM (#1266691)

If you have the spare RAM, I'd say a VM is the way to go. I've tried the dual-boot approach, and found that the annoyance of having to reboot to switch between environments was high enough that it usually deterred me from doing it at all.

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Re:Developing Rails apps on Windows (the joyful way) by bphogan on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @09:43PM (#1266703)

I would agree with this, but also, snapshots are great. If you goof up your VM, just revert :) Great when learning how Linux works, and much faster than a wipe and rebuild.

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Re:Developing Rails apps on Windows (the joyful way) by Goosey on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @11:00PM (#1266833)

Good point about the snapshots! Also given that getting the dual-boot setup correctly with Windows 7 and my "FakeRAID" hard drives already consumed a weekend I wish I had thought of the VM route sooner..

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