How anybody enjoys programming Rails on a Windows machine beffudles me.
We’re doing the Rails workshop on Windows laptops (you’re free to bring your own Mac though) and after finalising the Rails workshop course material, damn… I dunno how some guys do it.
Finding a free, decent Ruby editor was hard enough (I ended up settling with the sluggish but decent radrails) and for lack of a better (and free) choice the official MySQL query browser (easy and intuitive my ass).
The biggest downer though is the windows command prompt.
Is there a good replacement for the standard command prompt? I’m not talking cygwin, but more like a windows-based bash or something.
Interested in what we’ll be building? Here’s a sneak peek:
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why not cygwin? use bash and rxvt for a proper terminal, works fine right?
the workshop won’t be much fun without it :]
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thanks grant.
i did start to install cygwin (that’s what i used to use in windows days) but it was quite a hefty base install and I thought maybe someone had made a sweet and minimalist shell/prompt I wasn’t aware of.
cygwin it may have to be.