[Ruby] Greetings from Alaska

[Joe Van Dyk]

On 10/2/06, Neil Moomey <neil at motznik.com> wrote:
> Thanks James,  I think you are right about not missing the event model.  I
> especially disliked that every html page was a web form with a requirement
> for posting to the server to communicate.  It resulted in too many hits to
> the server and slow web pages.  They tried too hard to replicate VB
> programming experience.  ASP.NET is such a monster of a beast it takes too
> long to master for web development.  I think they lost allot of their ASP
> fans when they switched. I will however miss Intellisense and other nice to
> have features of Visual Studio.  I'm currently using RadRails on Windows
> which seems to work ok but needs more work.
>
> Also, thanks for the resources tips everyone.

I've found that running Ubuntu in vmware on Windows (then using ssh to
access the vm) is a good way to develop RoR apps on Windows.