Ruby 2 and Rails 3 running on windows server

Question

I haven't tried yet, but I would like to have a good information background before begin.

I must run a Rails application on a Windows server (I think 2008),I know that there is other better solutions, but the client has this server's type.

I think that the problem can be solved in one of these four manners (maybe more?):

1. Running Apache/Ngnix as a service
2. Running directly from the OS
3. Running as virtualization
4. Running on a different partition (e.g. installing for example Ubuntu)

I have read tons of post but without finding a good solution (for Rails 3 and Ruby 2 I have find anything).

Which solution you suggest me? Which one is more stable and performant?
Any documentation is appreciated.

Answer 1

For ruby on rails its better to run it on linux than windows , on windows you will face a lot of problems like when you going to install gems , best thing is to install a vmware on your windows machine , then run Ubuntu or any linux distro you like through vmware, also you can check this question to know more