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    copied!<p>I really Recommend starting with <a href="http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=904" rel="nofollow noreferrer">InstantRails</a>. Its quick and lets you start coding in 2 minutes, which is the time to extract the archive.</p> <p>Our company has 3 developers using RoR on Windows. We started out using <a href="http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=904" rel="nofollow noreferrer">InstantRails</a>. Eventually we all replaced it with the <a href="http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ruby One Click Installer</a> and <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MySQL</a>, so we could use the same database instead of hosting locally. After setting those up you need to install Rails, which can be done from the command prompt:</p> <pre><code>gem install rails </code></pre> <p>We just changed the database.yml file and all our exisiting code ran exactly the same as before.</p> <p>We use two editors <a href="http://www.e-texteditor.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">e</a> for regular work and <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NetBeans</a> for debugging. I find that the NetBeans auto-complete is painfully slow and marginally useful. </p> <p>Development has been going very well, with no issues on windows. The only thing I listed that costs money is <a href="http://www.e-texteditor.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">e</a>, but the free Scite editor that comes with Ruby also works nicely.</p> <p>Edit: Also, the <a href="http://pragprog.com/titles/rails2/agile-web-development-with-rails" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Agile Web Development</a> PDF is a vital tool. I love autocomplete in Visual studio, but having this book is the next best thing for rails. Especially the PDF because the index has clickable links that navigate you straight to what you are looking for. It also costs money, but is completely worth it.</p>
 

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