How to be productive with Rails... even on Windows

Who is this guy?
Luis Lavena
Technical Director at AREA 17
Consultor and developer in video broadcast industry for past 12 years.

More precisely
Ruby user since 2001.
Windows user and developer since 1997.
A real pain in the butt to some people in the community :-)
Started years ago, and will keep doing it.

Breaking news
Something you guys need to know before
I continue with this presentation...

Just kidding... ;-)

Why care about Windows* ?
Broad developer base.
Developers coming from Java or .NET
Some of them angry
Because Ruby endorse Diversity
And being different is something that adds value
* 2K, XP, Vista and Servers.

How people is caring about it?
Ruby Installer to get you started
One-Click Installer
Writing tutorials.
Providing support (mailing list)
RubySpec

State of Ruby on Windows*
One-Click Installer
Still the standard to get you started
Still maintained
Other installers share concepts, different goals
Instant Rails
Bitnami (Ruby)
* Windows is not so different, sometimes is better ;-)

What about compatibility?
85%* of Gems/Scripts/Applications runs unaltered
10% can be easily made compatible
5% cannot work outside POSIX
* I just made up most of these numbers, sue me.

What about productivity?
Ruby Interpreter.
Rails.
Edit, develop, evolve, collaborate.
Deployment.
Enjoy your free time :-)

All this is possible on Windows, too.
Seriously , I'm not joking :-)

Ruby Interpreters
MRI (Matz Ruby Implementation)
Standard
Jruby
Enterprisey
Get all the cool stuff Java guys already use.

Rails
1.2.6, 2.1.1, you named, we got it.
Kudos to Rails-Core for it
Painless cross-platform*
Not only Windows, but Solaris, Linux, OSX, BSD, etc.
* It just works, no low level stuff to worry about.

IDEs, Editors
IDEs
NetBeans
Aptana (ex RadRails)
Ruby in Steel (VS)
Eclipse + RDT
Simple-Text
Programmer's Notepad
Notepad+
Intype*
* Not full featured, but still worth it.

Develop and evolve
Autotest runs just fine*
RSpec is awesome
test/unit, shoulda, all just work
And it should ;-)
You say notifications? Snarl for you!
* Most of the time :-)

Collaborate
Subversion
TortoiseSVN for easy explorer integration
Real cross-platform, it just works
Easy server and repository management tools.

Collaborate, distributed
Git
msysGit is great
Runs natively (no cygwin layer).
Hint: stay away from autocrlf
GitHub is awesome
Kudos to GitHub people for nicer Git-for-Windows intro
Hg, Bzr*
* Python based ones, real good workflows and cross-platform.

You say deploy?
Capistrano is your friend
PuTTY is pure gold
scp => pscp
ssh => plink
ssh-agent => pageant
ssh-keygen => puttygen

Let's play with fire...

RubyInstaller 3.0 (One-Click)*
Bleeding edge stuff, I warned you.
Less pain when building gems.
Developer friendly environment.
Lot of work to be done.
http://rubyurl.com/0s0D
ruby_devkit-186-p287.msi
* Less clicks than current one, still more than one.

RubyInstaller 3.0 (One-Click)*
GCC Based.
Ease administrative installations
Don't destroy your gems :-)
Developers Kit
Corss compile from Linux for Windows.
Did I say less pain for you?

Credits go where credits are due
Ruby
Matz, we all know why.
Mr. Nakada (nobu), Mr. Nakamura (usa) – Official Windows support (ruby-core)
Park Heesob and Daniel Berger (win32utils)
Eric Hodel and RubyGems team.

Credits go where credits are due
RubyInstaller (One-Click)
Curt Hibbs
Andy Hunt
Gordon Thiesfeld
Lars Christensen
Any Gem developer
That accepts critics and patches ;-)

Thank you!
Really, thank you .

Last but not least...
Thanks to Ana (I love you).
Without her support, I'll not have time or strength to do Ruby work.

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How to be productive with Rails... even on Windows

by Luis Lavena on Oct 18, 2008

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