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Asked: 2026-05-19T02:15:54+00:00

I’m frustrated with having to develop Rails on Windows. So, I installed Ubuntu 10.04

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I’m frustrated with having to develop Rails on Windows.

So, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a laptop and remote desktop’ped into it. That works.

All I really want/need to do is to have a Rails server running on Ubuntu. But can I do all the code editing, terminal access etc. from Windows?

In short, is the following possible to do:

  1. Code is in some folder in Ubuntu (say /home/app1)
  2. Using some sort of file sharing (Samba?), I map the /home/app1 so I can access the folder in Windows.
  3. Then I access and edit the code in Windows via the file share.
  4. Use some terminal (puTTY?) to do things like rails server, run generators etc, tail the log file.
  5. Access the Rails site in a browser on Windows.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Ps. I know I could simply use Ubuntu via the remote desktop, but I don’t want to because:

  1. Don’t like x-windows.
  2. Too much of a hassle when cannot Alt+Tab from Remote Desktop to Windows Desktop.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think /home/app1 can be mounted using “mount” (NFS server/client) to a windows directory.

    I would rather use ubuntu as VMware virtual machine (or virtual desktop free open source), that is what I am doing right now for Groovy and Grails using Ubuntu 10.10 vmware VM in Windows XP.

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