I was considering migrating from asp.net MVC 3 to Rails, however, when I read that Rails (or Ruby for that matter) dev support on Windows was shacky at best, I began to back-off from this idea. At this point it seems that unless you stick to a LAMP type stack for rails (in dev and production mode), you will have difficulty getting support if you are based on windows.
Is there anybody here who has created a complex rails web app on Windows?
the best you can do as developer is keep your developer’s environment closer to real production base. It saves a lot if time on debugging unexpected behaviour and fixing strange bugs. If you don’t be able to use *nix, try to setup Virtual Machine with ports forwarding of 22 and 3000 ports