On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Ben Giordano <benjamintgiord...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Looking to learn Rails but hoping to stick with Win7/xp as all of the > machines I work on run one of those two OSs. Would hate to be stuck to > my laptop for development b/c its the only machine I have running > ubuntu. Am I shooting myself in the foot by trying to learn rails on > windows? > No, but starting out use Instant Rails or the like.... even though when you are learning even getting things fully working on Mac can take a bit of a learning curve, but at least on Mac you have a lot of support.... that said, if you really fall in love with Rails, do ditch windows and if you have the choice avoid deploying on Windows server, do it! Also you may want to consider using a Linux vm (i.e. Ubuntu) on your windows machines... another option. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
