title: Developing in Ruby on Windows
body: <p>I'm starting a new job soon where I'm going to be developing in Ruby and Rails on a Windows machine. I haven't used Windows for years, and the likes of Textmate, Git and Bash, are an integral part of the workflow using a Mac.</p>
  
  <p>So, does anybody have any suggestions or recommendations as to the best tools or work strategies to use? Or pitfalls to avoid?</p>
  
  <p>In particular, of course, I'm interested in the best text editor. (I'm seriously thinking about taking the opportunity to learn Vim or Emacs, or whatever the Windows ports are called, but any other thoughts would be welcome.)</p>
  
  <p>Additionally, any ideas of useful plugins, tools or programs would be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>If you think that I've completely lost my mind, then feel free to tell me too ;-)</p>
  
  <p>cheers !</p>