Follow-up question for Chris, Wolfgang, and anyone else who has experience in this matter. Chris, you wrote above: "Don't give up on Ruby on Windows so quickly. I've been using it on Windows for years, but maybe I just don't know what I'm missing..." I was primarily interested in "mildly" testing Ruby cross-platform claims something similar to Java (I come from the Java world) and Perl (I am not a Perl programmer, though have a healthy respect for its capabilities. I do Bash and Ksh however). Moreover, my interest in Ruby is motivated by a desire to get up to speed in Ruby on Rails which I intend to use do develop database driven web applications on open-source platforms. My question to you all is: have you found a good reason (or reasons) to use Ruby on Windows to do any real commercial work? Or is it because Windows is so all pervasive? I guess I am looking for some real-life examples of how Ruby is helping do some heavy-lifting in the Windows world. Just curious. Bharat -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.