
Episode 282: 282: Rails on Windows is Fabulous with Scott Hanselman
About this episode
Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience. Windows runs Linux at near-native speeds with an actual shipping Linux Kernel using WSL2, Ruby on Rails folks using Windows should do their work in WSL2.
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- Scott Hanselman Coder, Blogger, Teacher, Speaker, Author
- Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code
- Install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
- First Timers Only
- Scott on Twitter (@shanselman)
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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