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How to run Ruby on Rails with Windows 10 and WSL 1

Hector Minaya on October 30, 2019

Today I saw a twitter thread from DHH, which reminded me that even great developers struggle once in a while 👇 Liquid error: internal No, it's no...
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Thorsten Hirsch

Thank you for sharing DHH's tweet. It's really good to see that our "dev heroes" are struggling with the same things as we do. And concerning Microsoft - looks like the days of "cancerous Linux" are long gone now. I really like the new Microsoft.

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Hector Minaya

Yeap, they too get stuck, google, hang out on stackoverflow.

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Juanjo Salvador

WSL is one of the most useful features for developers (and non-developers!) included on Windows 10.

I've been using the new Windows Terminal for this purpose too, but actually to run a Hanami server :P It also supports Jekyll pretty nice and other server-side tools and frameworks that you usually see on Linux or Mac. So, welcome back to the developers environment, Windows.

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Michael Caveney

Did you have issues setting up the database? SQLite isn't an issue, but I've tried to get both MySQL and Postgres working to no avail.