Help with hosting

rubyonrails-talk
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I am a windows developer and I am able to develop and test my RoR apps with webricks good. But the hosting company I choose was Linux based and when I moved the app nothing worked bacause of the path of ruby and gem etc.,

I have 2 questions, 1. is there any hosting companies host RoR on windows? 2. How you guys handle development, testing in Windows and production in Linux??

Thanks in advance.

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I use Win (XP) and Linux (Ubuntu) in parallel for development and testing of RoR applications. Some tools are Linux specific but not the core ones. The combination that I use is Appache+Mongrel witch enables me to be hosted on both OS. I prefer production hosting on Linux because it seams more natural, most open source applications are natively Linux origin and have better performance on it. Also the Windows hosting is a more expensive in correlation to Linux based. Try to be on the both sides - you never know what your client requirements will be.

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Thank you very much and following link at one of the hosting company has one of the best documentation on how to go about migrating from windows to linux.

http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki_thread/1