Not to be a nay sayer, to everyone else, but running a rails app on Windows is certainly do-able. One of our earliest rails apps here is deployed on a windows box and it's been fine (setting up ssh/svn keys to get the code onto it and the lack of being able to deploy with capistrano notwithstanding). Sure, a unix solution is to be recommended, but that doesn't mean you can't do it on windows.
<br><br>If Simon has a windows box attached to the net, and he just wants to get his app up and running, and he's comfortable with windows admin in a way he's not with unix, then setting up a windows with ruby + apache + fcgi would probably be the shallowest learning curve for him.
<br><br>Once you know the app works, then you can look into 'real' hosting and tackle the problem of learning to administrate unix separately.<br><br>Muz <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Tom Stuart</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@experthuman.com">tom@experthuman.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:42, Simon Sebright wrote:<br>> Is there a particular distribution recommended for ruby/rails?<br>> Preferrably one which is good for first-time users!<br><br>Pretty much any Linux distribution will do the trick -- once RubyGems
<br>is installed you're mostly there -- but Ubuntu is probably the most<br>popular among Rails developers so that'd be your best bet from a<br>Googling-for-answers standpoint.<br><br>Cheers,<br>-Tom<br>_______________________________________________
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