Is Rails development really that hard on Windows? I'm a PHP developer looking to use Rails (mainly because every single PHP framework I tried has some quirk I just hate).
I downloaded Aptana Studio (with RadRails) as it seemed like a good solution (and because I love everything based on Eclipse). But in cases where problems arise - when creating a project (called "test" using sqlite3), the first problem I hit is the "sqlite3 missing" error. So I'm a little around Google and installing sqlite3-ruby with a gem. I still had some error, but I managed to fix it. So that seems to work, but is it? Some environment that almost doesn't work and has a lot of problems ( see This )?
In another question, I saw a suggestion to run a project in a virtual machine instead and edit it from Windows. It seems like a good idea - but the two main Rails IDEs (RadRails, NetBeans, if there are more) seem to want to run their own server on Windows. What would be the best setup for them / how could I create a project in them if I instead ran the Linux Rails stack on VM?
Please note that I would prefer not to work without an IDE - after I tried PHP, I immediately became completely addicted (sigh), and since I had never used Ruby (or Rails) before, it would be a serious help after the code was completed.
So what are your suggestions? Running on Windows or Windows and Linux on VM? Any other tips?
Thank!
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