I’ve been developing the Saturday MP website, which was developed using Ruby on Rails, on Windows using Rad Rails. Unfortunately developing on Ruby on Rails on Windows has a couple drawbacks:
- It’s hard to install Ruby and/or Rails on Windows. It’s getting easier with the Ruby Installer but still a pain.
- The production environment is Linux which can make it hard to debug a problem that only appears in one environment
I’ve started migrating my development envrionment to a MacBook Pro which is Linux based and then I can try TextMate which I hear so much about. I hear a lot about TextMate. Like I mean a lot. Hopefully it will live up to my expectations and also cure cancer.
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