[karmakaze]

Run Ubuntu Server in text-only mode (reducing the amount of RAM allocated to the VM) and set up to ssh into it.

Then run RubyMine from Windows.

Make a work directory on Ubuntu that has the same branch checked out as your Windows work directory.

Then set up RubyMine: Tools -> Deployment -> Configuration... and set up remote rsync with automatic update of remote files from Windows.

Any file you change on Windows will automatically sync to Linux. You only need a script running on Linux to live update/restart your app on file changes.

I do a version of this for Ruby/Rails development with a cloud VM instance from Mac RubyMine editing machine.

[patrck]

Yeah, think cheap and distributed. Like Tsutomu Shimomura's quiet Xterminal connected to a noisy box in another room.

The alternative gamer-mentality of tightly coupled cpu, gpu, and storage with huge IO is quite costly.

[L0g4n]

That sounds like a good compromise for the windows machine. Thanks, I will definitely try that out.