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Re:Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows by ryanmarsh on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @01:54PM (#9034744)
Ruby on Windows is hell and it isn't Ruby's fault. I finally ditched a project I had written with Ruby on Windows and opted for Node which has fewer problems compiling native modules. Ruby out of the box runs fine, trying to get thin or Nokogiri to build was worse than trying to get X.org configured to work with vendor video drivers on linux in the 90's
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Re:Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows by adrianlmm on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @02:21PM (#9035006)
I feel your pain, I have the same problem, Ruby installs fine, but building dependencies is a gamble, I cannot install thin on Ruby 2.2 on Windows, so I'm stuck to Ruby 1.9.3, there are bug reports, but nobody cares, I don't thing this project will change that.
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Re:Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows by FooBarWidget on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @02:04PM (#9034835)
How did Node.js solve compilation problems on Windows? Doesn't Node.js suffer from the same problems? Do they provide a devkit that includes a compiler or something?
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Re:Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows by ryanmarsh on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:05AM (#9038786)
i don't know how Node does it better but I have compiled several native extensions on windows just fine. I think the difference is people about Windows in the node community.
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Re:Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows by giblaz on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @02:58PM (#9035308)
Oof, why not try something like setting up a Vagrant machine running Linux instead of rewriting the entire project? Seems a lot simpler and way better for the project.
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Re:Traveling Ruby 20150210: smaller, supports Ruby 2.2, Windows by ryanmarsh on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:07AM (#9038792)
It's for a Microsoft shop. Their IT wouldn't let me have a Linux VM because they didn't want to be on the hook for supporting it. This is typical stuff for Fortune 500 IT consulting. I swear IT depts are making themselves irrelevant.
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