Believe me, I know how difficult it is to give up on asking “how to do this on my OS” and someone says “use another OS”. As a linux user in the Mac-oriented Rails community, I have heard this before. But you will encounter many problems with Ruby and / or Rails on Windows.
I think there is a good compromise. Install Ubuntu Linux (free) as another partition on your hard drive. Installing Ubuntu makes it easy to cut a small piece of your hard drive for yourself, no matter what size you want. In fact, every time I get a new laptop with Windows installed, I really didn’t want to, I install Ubuntu on most drives, but leave Windows on a small fragment. I paid for the license, I could also keep it.
After installing Ubuntu, Rails will become much easier and you don’t have to give up on Windows to do this. I think the dual boot option is a good one.
http://www.ubuntu.com contains everything you need.
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