Windows vs OSX vs Ubuntu for Ruby/Rails Development
When I first started working with Rails, I had a windows laptop and so that’s where I worked. Later I got on two different Rails projects that used OSX (on Mac minis). Now I’m using Kubuntu . I thought I’d take a minute to compare them all. I’m not going to mince words here -- try to avoid developing in Windows if at all possible for these reasons: Tests will run very slow (by a factor of 10 or more). The mysql drivers are not so good (When I developed in windows, I noticed I kept losing my connection to the database during operations that took more than a second or two and I couldn ’t get any of the replacement drivers to work). A fair amount of the plugins will be much harder to install (we are using the Raspell gem for “did you mean” functionality which needs aspell and the windows dudes still haven’t figured out how to install it. On Ubuntu , it was a simple “aptitude install”). Help online is usually not geared towards the Rails on Windows developer. If yo...