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Installing Ruby on Rails Leveraging Ubuntu on Windows 10

James Bedont on July 25, 2017

Background Its been my experience that getting Ruby and by extension Rails setup on a Windows machine can be difficult and headache indu...
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Thorsten Hirsch

Thank you for this interesting article. Some developers are forced to use a Windows machine at their workplace, myself being one of them. I'm glad Microsoft offers the Ubuntu environment, which is in my opinion a big leap for a more developer-friendly desktop. I wonder if the performance of Ruby-on-Rails-on-Ubuntu-on-Windows is on par with a native Ubuntu installation.