Ruby on Windows: Failure and Observations

It's a story that goes back a long way too. Some people care about Ruby on Windows a lot but in the main, nah, Ruby and Windows don't gel and there isn't the mass interest. As true now as when I wrote about this problem back in 2008: http://www.rubyinside.com/is-windows-a-first-class-platform-...

Back at Euruko 2008 I chaired a panel on the topic of Ruby + Windows after a few Windows advocates asked me to get a feel for the what the community though. You could have seen a tumbleweed go across the room of 300 developers! And Matz's opinion was pretty clear: http://blog.flowdock.com/2008/05/29/ruby-release-compatibili...