Another go with Rails 3 on Windows

It has been awhile since we last looked at Rails 3 on Windows and a lot has changed.

Ruby is too tightly coupled

I Love Ruby. Unfortunately "require 'ruby'" brings in unrelated cruft that I don't love. That has led me to the opinion that Ruby is too tightly coupled. I am not a VM implementor, I haven't even looked at the source code of Ruby itself, so how, you might ask, have I come to this conclusion? Here are a few modules that are automatically included when I require 'ruby'

Massaging Rails 3 Beta on Windows

[Update:

Quite a lot has changed since this post was written. See Another Go with Rails 3 on Windows for a more up to date Rails 3 on Windows guide.

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So you've read the blog posts and seen the tweets and retweets about the early Christmas present that is the official Rails 3 beta. Here I share my experience of trying to bring it to life on Windows.