What OS do you use for Ruby development?

[Nick Hird]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?
Thanks,
-Nick

 

[Eugen Ciur]

Ubuntu

 

[Rhys Powell]

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I personally run a mix of Ubuntu and Windows 7 and I can assure you you do
not want to be on Windows when developing for Ruby. I've also had experience
with Ruby on OS X and found it really quite suited to the platform.

 

[Damjan Rems]

Netbeans on Kubuntu and Windows7. It's the same.

by
TheR

 

[Richard Conroy]

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Windows 7 & Ubuntu Lucid.

Netbeans primary dev environment. Really minimises the OS differences. I
tend to standardise on JRuby a lot
across OSes.

I haven't tried the new RubyInstaller on windows. Has huge updates over
previous versions (includes a toolchain
which allows for compiling native gems from source, POSIX fashion).

 

[Martin DeMello]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?

Arch Linux with rvm

martin

 

[Quintus]

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Am 07.09.2010 13:00, schrieb Nick Hird:

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?
Thanks,
-Nick

I'm using Ruby 1.9.2-p0 on Ubuntu Lucid (not the standard package
provided in the Ubuntu repos, I compiled Ruby myself from source) and on
Windows Vista. And I agree with the others, using Ruby on Windows is a
pain, exspecially if you're used to making calls to #fork in order to
parallelize processes.

Vale,
Marvin
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[Rick DeNatale]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?
Thanks,

OS X for development.

Linux for deployments, usually Ubuntu or whatever if the client has a
different preference.

I install Ruby from source on most platforms, now generally using RVM.


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[Edmond Kachale]

Our team of seven developers uses Ubuntu and nothing-else!!

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[Robert Klemme]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?

cygwin on Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu.

robert

 

[Jörg W Mittag]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?

Windows 7 for development. Also lots of little scripts. Currently
working on my first web app, which will actually end up being deployed
on OS/400 (Although I haven't the faintest idea how I am going to do
that ...).

Interestingly, of the people that answered so far, 60% run Windows,
only 10% run OSX. 100% run multiple different systems. This does not
match the typical rhetoric.

(Of course, the sample size isn't exactly optimal to say the least.)

jwm

 

[Greg Willits]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS

you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?

OS X for development. Deployment on OSX and Windows.

 

[Kendall Gifford]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?
Thanks,
-Nick

Ubuntu for development, ubuntu for deployment. Occasionally (when I
have to) I'll edit some code under windows and maybe even run/test
stuff too.

 

[Ryan Davis]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?

I use OSX for development and OSX Server or other BSDs for deployment.

Geoffrey Grossenbach, Evan Phoenix, Carlhuda, Laurent (duh), Eero/rue, =
Ben Bleything, Aaron Patterson, Paul Dix and Eric Hodel also use OSX for =
development.

 

[Nicholas Orr]

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Linux VM's (gentoo), ruby compiled using rvm

then I actually edit code on windows via e-text editor (via samba share)

I find using linux = it just works, i had a small go at using windows and
that wasn't fun...

 

[KlausG]

- My data is on Windows (SQL Server 2005)
- My clients are using Windows (Internet Explorer)
- My other development tools are on Windows

so I decided to start learning Ruby and do my first project on:
- Windows XP with Ruby 1.9.1

 

[Eduardo Blumenfeld]

I use Windows 7 Pro

Data in SQL Server

IronRuby 1.1

Notepad++ as the editor...

 

[Tim Hoolihan]

I use Ubuntu in a really light vm, and leverage putty and xming to
minimize the size and requirements of the vm. I blogged the setup:

http://hoolihan.net/blog-tim/2010/0...n-source-languages-on-windows-the-better-way/

 

[Josh Cheek]

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OSX, and despite the answers here, at Ruby Midwest, the ratio of Macbook Pro
to non Macbook Pro was probably around 20 to 1.

 

[Walton Hoops]

I don't want to start any OS wars. I was just curious as to what OS
you prefer to run/code ruby in. If you run *nix, what distro?
Thanks,
-Nick

At work: Windows
At home: Debian squeeze

Redcar as the editor. Which I highly recommend, it may not be as
polished as TextMate, but it's getting cooler every day.