@twilsonxpert said:
Good luck finding anything pre-compiled in open-source land. Also, I've tried playing with Ruby on Rails on Windows. It's a nightmare. Just say no to anything Ruby related and Windows. And also PHP on Windows. Say no to that as well.
What? It's incredibly rare to find a piece of free software that does not have a pre-compiled version for Windows. Often, there are 3, an installer, one without the installer and a portable version. That's mainly because compiling (or running, by the way) anything on Windows is a nightmare.
Ok, but I've never tried to do anything Ruby related on Windows, maybe that's why my oppinon differs so much. PHP is quite easy to find compiled for Windows, standalone, bundled with Apache and MySQL, bundled with Nginx, or in any comfiguration you want... Anyway, I completelly agree with your advice: just say NO to that.