How to be productive with Rails... even on Windows
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Luis Lavena, a technical director and developer in the video broadcast industry, discusses the Ruby programming language's compatibility and productivity on Windows systems. He highlights the availability of a one-click installer and various development tools that facilitate Ruby development on Windows, as well as the community support through mailing lists and collaborations. Lavena also credits contributors to Ruby and emphasizes the importance of continuous improvements and support for developers using Windows.
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How to be productive with Rails... even on Windows
- 2. Who is this guy? Luis Lavena Technical Director at AREA 17 Consultor and developer in video broadcast industry for past 12 years.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Breaking news Something you guys need to know before I continue with this presentation...
- 7. 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.
- 8. How people is caring about it? Ruby Installer to get you started One-Click Installer Writing tutorials. Providing support (mailing list) RubySpec
- 9. 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 ;-)
- 10. 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.
- 11. What about productivity? Ruby Interpreter. Rails. Edit, develop, evolve, collaborate. Deployment. Enjoy your free time :-)
- 12. All this is possible on Windows, too. Seriously , I'm not joking :-)
- 13. Ruby Interpreters MRI (Matz Ruby Implementation) Standard Jruby Enterprisey Get all the cool stuff Java guys already use.
- 14. 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.
- 15. 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.
- 16. 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 :-)
- 17. Collaborate Subversion TortoiseSVN for easy explorer integration Real cross-platform, it just works Easy server and repository management tools.
- 18. 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.
- 19. You say deploy? Capistrano is your friend PuTTY is pure gold scp => pscp ssh => plink ssh-agent => pageant ssh-keygen => puttygen
- 20. Let's play with fire...
- 21. 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.
- 22. 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?
- 23. 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.
- 24. 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 ;-)
- 25. Thank you! Really, thank you .
- 26. 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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