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Re:From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward by josephmosby on Sunday December 09, 2012 @12:30PM (#4895220)
I think the "understands the language and ecosystem better" is critical, but my expectation is that I need to learn a subset of key gems better more than anything else.

Every hardcore Ruby-ist that I've known has owned a Mac as their primary dev machine. I'm sure that there are plenty of Linux devs out there, but my experience has been that it's heavily Mac-driven. However, by sticking with Linux as my development platform, I'm probably going to learn the guts of gems because I have to get under the hood to make them work on Linux.

Maybe I'll continue to have gem conflicts, but that's okay - I'll know how to hack around them.

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Re:From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward by kingnothing on Sunday December 09, 2012 @02:44PM (#4895803)
You shouldn't hit any issues with gems and linux -- most production Ruby systems use linux.
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Re:From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward by anveo on Sunday December 09, 2012 @12:53PM (#4895311)
While many Rubyists may use a Mac I'm confident the large majority deploy those applications on Linux. Cross OS compatibility issues are virtually non-existent, especially on non-development focused gems.
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Re:From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward by jayferd on Sunday December 09, 2012 @02:36PM (#4895768)
I've been developing on Linux since I started. If someone makes a gem that you can't install because you're using Linux, you probably don't need that gem :).
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Re:From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward by jhawthorn on Sunday December 09, 2012 @12:48PM (#4895295)
You will not run into this problem. Linux is almost always used for production servers and is popular for development as well.
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Re:From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward by skrebbel on Sunday December 09, 2012 @12:41PM (#4895260)
why so? Mac is a lot like Linux. I've been having little problems with the vast majority of mature gems even on Windows (especially with ruby devkit around, which automagically temporarily puts a GNU environment in my path to build gems that contain c/c++ code, none of which you'll need to worry about on Linux)
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