Usually, I code on FreeBSD with vim, and Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.1.
For my day job, I'm trying to push ruby for different tasks (automated
builds, small tools, embarked scripting language). There, I have to work
with a bunch of windows versions (XP, 2003, vista, seven, 2008), using
NetBeans. If I can, I stay with JRuby, but the different packaging
tools (RubyScript2exe then OCRA) are an interesting alternative with
Ruby 1.8.6/7.
Fred
Needed to add a BSD to the balance...
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Le 07 septembre à 13:00, Nick Hird a écrit :
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?
--
And you run, and you run to catch up with the Sun But it's crashing
And booting around to come up behind you again The Sun is the same in a
relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to
Death (James Turinsky in the SDM with apologies to Pink Floyd)
OS X 10.6 for dev and deployment. TextMate or vi for editing.
I write system and Rails apps. As of the last six months these have been with Ruby 1.9+ and Rails 3.
Jose
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
—Howard Thurman
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On Sep 7, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Nick Hird wrote:
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 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
Its all about investment you want to put it in and your favorite OS.
If cost does not matter to you, buy a decent macbook or a macbook pro
and jump into ruby world
If cost does matter to you, buy a good IBM thinkpad or some pc laptop
and install any of your favorite linux version .. not only Ubuntu, there
are tons of linux distributions - Fedorda, debian, Symbian, Mint, etc.,
if you fav OS is windows - you can make them work but there are some
very good tools in ruby that are not ported to windows yet. So please
stick to either Mac or a linux version.
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.
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).
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Damjan Rems <d_rems@yahoo.com> wrote:
*"Many people doubt open source software and probably don’t realize that
there is an alternative… which is just as good.." -- Kevin Scannell*
On 7 September 2010 14:24, Quintus <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:
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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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Wow, the results were not what i was expecting. I see a lot of Windows
environments. I also noticed a lot of Ubuntu users and Mac. Not many
other distro's mentioned. Keep them coming!
-Nick
...and we are all glad that you work on Windows. Thanks, Luis.
Cheers,
Mohit.
9/9/2010 | 11:07 PM.
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On 9/9/2010 11:00 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:
On Sep 7, 8:00 am, Nick Hird<nrh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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 develop most of the times on Windows and OSX, and also run stuff on
Ubuntu VMs to mimic the production environments most of the
applications I work on are deployed.
I see Redcar is written in JRuby. How is the responsiveness? I'm always
highly skeptical of editors not written in C. They all just
feel...sluggish. Even those written in Java (which apparently can arguably
out perform C...I shudder to think how a Java based high performance game
would perform but I digress) seem sluggish, use way too much memory, and
crash way too often. I really wanted to like Netbeans.
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Walton Hoops <me@waltonhoops.com> wrote:
On 9/7/2010 5:00 AM, Nick Hird wrote:
> 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.
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:00 AM
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,
Hello Nick:
For development I prefer using Windows Vista or 7 if the Gems are available on Windows but will use Linux Mint if the Gems aren't available or precompiled for Windows.
For execution prefer running them on Windows (because that's were most of my apps are) even if the speed is a little slower most of the time.
Michael
A few folks mentioned their editors, so... my favourite editor is RubyMine (by JetBrains), I only used the trial version and haven't registered it yet but it's slightly better than my previous favourite TurboRuby (by Embarcadero) because it has more smarts and is actively maintained. Both TurboRuby and my previous previous favourite, Arachno Ruby (by Scriptolutions), aren't being actively maintained anymore. All these editors provide a code-completion, syntax checking and debugging experience more like Delphi and Visual Studio (minus the native GUI designers of course).
As a side note, it would be really nice if the Windows Ruby installer installed and automatically configure Mingw for GEM compilation so that when I "gem install" something in Windows without a recent pre-built binary that it compiles one just like Linux does. For example, after a few hours I gave up on trying to get the Ruby-OpenAL GEM installed on Windows because it seemed like to much work for the experimenting I wanted to do. I later tryed the same thing on Linux Mint and the install was painless. It would be nice if the experience in the Windows platform was similar. Since the Mingw compiler has made the performance difference between Linux and Windows much smaller I prefer to stay on Windows since I also develop using Delphi. The only real nuisance on Windows is GEM availability. It must be a pain-in-the-tush for GEM developers to make pre-built Windows binaries. I imagine it would helpful to cross-platform consistency / predictably / deployability if there were automatic GEM compilability on Windows too.
I deploy on FreeBSD, CentOS, and BitBucket (does that count as
"deployment"?) primarily. The CentOS might get replaced by OpenBSD in
the near future.
Oh, yeah -- because I also write articles on technical topics
professionally, I also sometimes "deploy" Ruby code when incorporating
sample code in an article (more often than any other programming
language, in fact, because Ruby's so succinct and easy to read, even for
the uninitiated).
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:42:26PM +0900, F. Senault wrote:
Windows 7 x64 and Windows XP
RubyInstaller versions of Ruby 1.9.2 and 1.8.7 + DevKit + Pik
JRuby 1.5.2
Cygwin w/Ruby 1.8.7
Console 2
TCC LE 11
E Text Editor 2
I sometimes use Ubuntu in a VirtualBox VM, but as Ruby on Windows has
improved so drastically since switching to mingw (Thanks to the
sterling work of Luis and the rest of the RubyInstaller team), I've
found I don't need it so much any more.
Charles
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Nick Hird <nrhird@gmail.com> wrote:
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
