I use OSX at home, and windows at work. No big surprise there. So when I first learned about Ruby on Rails, I did the intro tutorial on both platforms.
I had to install Ruby on windows. My Mac had ruby pre-installed, but it shipped with a broken ruby, so I had to reinstall.
I had to install a few patches to get the very first tutorials to work on my Mac. It was seamless on Windows.
Since then, it has been more of a pleasure to code on the mac than the windows. I'm also a lot better able to deal with remote hosting, because I'm going from unix to unix, rather than windows to unix.
That said, I was surprised that it took a bit more struggling on a Mac, considering that the 27Signals team is very mac-centril.
I had to install Ruby on windows. My Mac had ruby pre-installed, but it shipped with a broken ruby, so I had to reinstall.
I had to install a few patches to get the very first tutorials to work on my Mac. It was seamless on Windows.
Since then, it has been more of a pleasure to code on the mac than the windows. I'm also a lot better able to deal with remote hosting, because I'm going from unix to unix, rather than windows to unix.
That said, I was surprised that it took a bit more struggling on a Mac, considering that the 27Signals team is very mac-centril.