Complete with RMU sticker!
Yep, I did it. After much agonizing and wrestling with my identity, I bought a 13″ Macbook Air. It was mostly because I have started a new job at Careerimp (doing Rails dev for our web app Resunate.com) at which deploying Rails on Windows is not a concern as it was at my last job.
I still have my Windows 7 netbook, and I’m still planning on doing Rails dev on it occasionally. I’m actually really excited to be able to quickly verify whether something is a Windows issue or a personal problem by being able to try something out on both.
Rest assured that while this blog has been quiet lately, it will not go dark! Why just a few minutes ago, I was able to get “[BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type 0x3a(0x108e5eb20) corrupted object” on OSX using ruby 1.8.7! And while I’m enjoying how much faster and smoother working with Ruby on OSX is, I’d still like to help make the Ruby experience on Windows just as nice so that I don’t have to be a Windows person or a Mac person or a Linux person, just a Ruby person :D
Please keep us updated on exactly how the transfer from Windows to Mac goes. I’ve been developing for three months now with Ruby on Rails on a Windows machine. At times it has been painful but I fear the inevitable day that I have to move to a Mac and its OS.
I am OS-agnostic as well – pretty much all tech-agnostic. I just like to see things work!
Will do! The biggest thing I’m struggling with right now is keyboard shortcuts :D
Running tests and plain Ruby in general is so much faster (Rails still does not start up instantly, of course). In general it seems like setup and development has been going more smoothly– but there are still things like installing and configuring MySQL that were just as complicated as anything I’ve set up on Windows.
Best of luck!
I switched 1 1/2 years ago to a MacBook Pro and i probably never go back – but never say never, right? ;)
I use MacPorts with Porticus (well, i just saw that MacPorts has an own GUI now) and it’s quite similar to a free App Store. Search, install and run. Plus, i even did not needed to configure MySQL for local development.
Cool! I like the picture, especially with RMU logo on your MacBook air. Sounds like having a lot of fun with Rails on any platform.
Hello,
Nice to find a blog oriented to windows ruby/rails users. I pretty much go through the same ordeals to setting up a rails development environment on Windows, and the best result until now was to throw a lightweight choose-your-flavour linux in a VM. Everything works like a charm in there, rspec is much faster (from 16seconds down to 0.5 on some simple apps).
In fact this is one of the biggest problems I have in Windows, rspec just lags.. Did you ever managed to solve this in win?
Thanks and keep us posted! :)