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    copied!<p>I am a beginner-verging-on-intermediate rails developer that is working hard to improve my skills. </p> <p>I am a little confused about the state of JRuby, and whether it is a viable alternative to switch to from the MRI. </p> <p>Currently I run a Mac at home and edit using textedit (MRI for ruby, terminal for rails commands, etc). At work, I use NetBeans on Windows, but don't do any Ruby work there. </p> <p>I am seriously considering ditching the Mac for reasons irrelevant to this conversation, but I am worried that once I am on Windows, the support for Ruby will be less-than-optimal (I may be wrong about this).</p> <p>I really enjoy working with Netbeans at work, and I can see that using JRuby on Windows with Netbeans and allowing JRuby to manage my gems would be a relatively pleasant experience. I like the idea of code completion and a full IDE rather than a text editor (without starting an editor flame war). </p> <p>My question is, is JRuby going to complicate learning rails? From what I have seen, certain gems aren't supported on JRuby, or things might be done a little differently in that ecosystem. As a learner, I follow a lot of tutorials from the web and from books and I am worried that things might not work or will be hard to get working on JRuby. Is this scepticism well founded? Or should it be a relatively painless switch? How does it effect deployment onto non-JRuby platforms such as Heroku etc?</p> <p>I am still weighing up a lot of options including MRI on Windows, MRI or JRuby on OpenSolaris, etc. I think that either way I will be going with Netbeans.</p> <p>Any comments are appreciated.</p>
 

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