Love Ruby, but hard to imagine a more hostile dev environment for someone on a Windows box. I think it would punch me if it could.

@codinghorror For shipping software as well. It was dreadful having to setup Ruby on our users' workstations. Switched to Go because of this

@codinghorror the Windows installer should probably just take you to Apple's store

@codinghorror I'm surprised it didn't facepalm you with a gem...

@codinghorror I don’t know about ruby but TFS wants blood. Every single merge.

@codinghorror It's not different on Linux/OSX. Ruby's dev env is normally hostile wherever you are.

@codinghorror guy who use windows neither #unix for devmnt - derserve it, really.

@codinghorror hard to imagine a more hostile environment than a Windows box :) I have to run mine in a vm on a Mac

@codinghorror Node has the whole "module file paths are too long to use in windows" thing... github.com/joyent/node/is…

@codinghorror I ask that about {LangNameHere} every time on windows! Need @WindowsSDK? Which One(s)? Or #gcc? VS/SQL broken yet? Your $PATH?

@codinghorror use samba and ssh with a linux vm, edit in windows, run in linux.

@codinghorror virtualbox + ubuntu

@codinghorror Nah, it's too busy mocking you and feeling superior.

@codinghorror my first Ruby job had me developing on Windows and deploying to Linux

@codinghorror I'll punch you, for developing in windows

@codinghorror don't try to install nokogiri!

@codinghorror This (ruby/rails dev) was the sole reason I bought a Mac in 2010. Now our office and home are 100% Mac (and no ruby/rails).

@codinghorror isn't the only non-hostile environment there .NET and company?

@codinghorror True

@codinghorror It's just waiting for you to turn around so it can catch you with a surprise southpaw.

@codinghorror don't worry, the ruby community has hostility for everyone, no matter what OS you work with

@codinghorror love django man.

@codinghorror why are you loving ruby ... Even more than c#? What does it give you?

@codinghorror Yes.