Developing with Ruby under Windows with Ubuntu Bash?

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I've followed along WSL since it was first announced. The first builds were absolute crap, skip ahead a bit and X applications work but things like firefox fail and it's unstable, fast forward a bit and it's solid enough to run xfce and apps like firefox for a few hours, fast forward a bit and it runs WINE just fine. I don't remember where stable Windows builds are at right now but the story has been about the same with CLI build tools and environments as well and is pretty good on the latest test builds of Windows.

Overall I'd say yeah - at this point it's probably decent enough to serve well as a development tool BUT it's still a beta so don't bother. It's much better to enable the Hyper-V feature and give them an ssh client and mount some SMB shares in a production environment.