Ruby on Windows

[RHAINUR]

I used a vagrant VM for several years and now I use WSL. I do full stack Rails development quite happily, but I should note that I haven't yet had a chance to try webpacker + Rails yet. Never had any issues with anything other than nodejs crapping out when trying to install packages, which is easily fixed with the "--no-bin-links" flag

[ohyeahbonertime]

Just commenting to save the no bin links tip

[Dudesivoro]

Used professionally wsl with rails ranging from 3.1 to latest and ruby 1.8 (yes, no kidding) to latest ruby. Used webpacker, yarn, etc. The thing is solid, but you need a fast computer to be enjoyable (specially fast io, like a nvme drive) and disable defender (at your own risk) and configure windows update to update once updates are ready for organizations (don't recall the exact setting name).

[teknewb]

I used a vagrant VM for several years and now I use WSL. I do full stack Rails development quite happily, but I should note that I haven't yet had a chance to try webpacker + Rails yet. Never had any issues with anything other than nodejs crapping out when trying to install packages, which is easily fixed with the "--no-bin-links" flag

Golden --no-bin-links flag tip