Run Rails on Windows Box?

Are there any benefits to running Rails on a Windows box? Does anybody p开发者_Go百科refer Windows as a platform for this sort of thing? I am almost a pure novice, but I can't see any reason not to use some nix distro.

You'll find that running Rails on Windows can be cumbersome. Installing/running/deploying on nix is the best way to get Rails up and running. In many distros Rails comes included so nothing to do except a few gem commands to update rails to the latest version and you're good to go.