[Ruby] Greetings from Alaska

[Joe Van Dyk]

On 10/2/06, James Moore <banshee at banshee.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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.
>
> What are you getting from that that you don't get from standard (Windows +
> cygwin)?
>
> I will say that I do the majority of my dev work on Windows, but I'd never
> consider deploying a live Windows server.  Bleah.  I also have a few Linux
> boxes that are used for some dev work, so if there's really something
> Linux-specific I've got a box around to try it on.
>
> (If you don't want to run your own linux box, sign up for something like
> Amazon's EC2 service; Linux servers at 20 cents an hour.)

Err, Linux.  :-)  I'm way more familiar with it than with cygwin.