I tried learning Ruby on Rails on Windows 7. It mostly worked, until it didn't. When I asked others around for help, and it became clear I'd done some newb thing to generate an un-google-able error, I was on my own. No one I knew developed on Windows. After being stuck enough times with maybe-Windows-specific errors, I decided I need a Mac.
Some gems reference Posix specific things. And your Gemfile.lock may include the platform upon which Bundler was run, be it Windows or Posix, and that can be a problem when trying to install gems on a different platform. And some nice utilities, such as Ruby version managers, don't work on Windows.
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I tried learning Ruby on Rails on Windows 7. It mostly worked, until it didn't. When I asked others around for help, and it became clear I'd done some newb thing to generate an un-google-able error, I was on my own. No one I knew developed on Windows. After being stuck enough times with maybe-Windows-specific errors, I decided I need a Mac.
I don't understand how it could be a problem to do RoR in windows?
Some gems reference Posix specific things. And your Gemfile.lock may include the platform upon which Bundler was run, be it Windows or Posix, and that can be a problem when trying to install gems on a different platform. And some nice utilities, such as Ruby version managers, don't work on Windows.
Window 10 Anniversary update has bash shell based on Ubuntu 14.06 integrated in Windows. I ran it from Parallels VM on my Mac and it works well.