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agente_secreto

Reputation: 8079

Best possible environment for Ruby and Rails on Windows 7?

I normally develop for Ruby and Ruby on Rails on a mac, but in my workplace we use Windows. We are starting to do some stuff in Ruby at work, so I am trying to set up an environment... and it is a pain in the ass.

I just installed ruby with the win automatic installer thingy, but I have to run a special version of the cmd to run ruby scripts.

In OSX I do everything with Textmate and Terminal, and I love that I can run ruby scripts from Textmate.

In win I have to go back and forth between Notepadd ++ and the shitty command line, and run scripts from there.

Is there any chance to replicate my OSX environment's functionalities in Windows 7? I am specially interested on being able to run RUby scripts from a lightweight IDE.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1627

Answers (2)

bovino Marcelo Bezerra
bovino Marcelo Bezerra

Reputation: 2062

[aswer edited/improved]

Vagrant is a very good option for the problem: manuel.manuelles.nl/blog/2013/07/23/… samora.me/2012/11/finally-there-is-cure-for-ruby-on-rails.html

Also, i suppose there is this way to use Notepad++ to run the Ruby scripts: compinfopro.com/run-ruby-program-and-compile-sources

Another option available on Windows OS is to use the JRUby intepreter that comes integrated with the NetBeans IDE: netbeans.org/community/articles/ruby-with-netbeans.html

For Rails development on Windows, RailsInstaller could also be useful http://railsinstaller.org/

Upvotes: 0

Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore

Reputation: 12616

The absolutely and ultimately best IDE for Rails for me is RubyMine. Never seen better integration between framework / IDE. Still, that probably means I've got little experience with high-level frameworks, but it is indeed astonishingly good.

Upvotes: 1

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