Comments on: Linux VirtualBox vs Windows for Rails Dev

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:07:37 +0000

Thank you for the insight. I've been running ROR on a windows 7 box and used every IDE on the Market. Until recently I installed Ubuntu and wanted to know if I can still run win7 besides a dual boot and you've answered my ?. thanks for the write up. FYI I'm new to Ubuntu, tried it a few times a couple of months back, didn't get it until now. It runs fast with fewer services. I'm a .Net Dev too and hope to be moving over to ROR soon.

By: Rails Development on Windows: Native or Virtualize| Pathfinder Software Development | Blogs

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:03:12 +0000

[...] that don't have to do with trying to fix something that's broken. Performance for one. As seen here, certain tasks on windows are much slower than if virtualized, even if the virtualization has [...]

By: kirk

kirk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:26:04 +0000

I've been using JetBrains rubyMine on windows Vista. Works quite well

By: Sasha

Sasha — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:28:29 +0000

And on top of that, half of the Ruby Gems required for proper Rails development don't install or don't work correctly on Windows. >_

By: Frank Carver’s Punch Barrel / Linux VirtualBox vs Windows

Frank Carver’s Punch Barrel / Linux VirtualBox vs Windows — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:06:52 +0000

[...] Linux VirtualBox vs Windows for Rails Dev - James Crisp. [...]

By: Spyros

Spyros — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:37:01 +0000

thanks for the insight. If the figures stand on my setup as well, you ll'save me a heck lot of time.
@Luke I don't know about JRuby's performance, but Eclipse (with RadRails) perform very poorly in my experience. Actually after using it for quite a time, I.. eclipsed Eclipse for Notepad++ sake (with light explorer plugin)

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:54:38 +0000

Or use JRuby with Eclipse/Netbeans...