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Asked: 2026-05-24T04:40:16+00:00

I’m starting to learn Ruby on Rails but this question is bugging me. As

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I’m starting to learn Ruby on Rails but this question is bugging me.

As I visited a lot of Ruby on Rails site and talked to a lot of Ruby on Rails dev I know, most of them are using Macbook to do the development.

Even I know that Ubuntu is also a good platform to do the development. But, why not so much people using it. The point is, a laptop with Ubuntu is much cheaper compare to Macbook Pro. It’s almost $500 in different at my location, which is quite a lot of money for me. But, I can pay for it if Macbook is really better.

So, Is there any pros and cons that I’m not aware of? And, do I really need Macbook to do Ruby on Rails development?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ubuntu is fine for ruby on rails development, in fact, I prefer it over developing on OSX.

    It just so happens that a lot of the rails community use Macs as their development machine.

    I would not recommend using windows though since there are a lot of rails/ruby tools that use shell scripts.

    If you’re developing on ubuntu, don’t use the ruby version from apt-get, download the source from the website and compile that, it comes with ruby gems so you can get started right away with gem install rails.

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