[bratsche]

There's a really long way from getting bundle to run until you need to deploy. I'd recommend not worrying about deployment until you've got your app up and running locally.

If you want to develop on Linux without buying another machine, you could (at least for now) download VirtualBox and install Linux on it. That will let you run Linux from within Windows.

[jrbeal]

My son said the same thing. I guess my concern was getting all the way to the deployment stage only to realize there was something I should have been doing differently way too late in the game... (I'm probably being paranoid!) Anyhow, so you recommend that I press with the development and NOT worry about deploying (to Heroko -- or whatever) until much later... I can live with that! (Just run the rails server and connect with browser at port 3000... right?

[bratsche]

Honestly, yeah.. deploying to Heroku is ridiculously simple for simple apps, and from the sounds of it I would expect that you don't have a hundred moving pieces in it yet (and may never). Deploying to something else, like AWS, is more involved but still it's most likely not going to be much different in the end than it is in the beginning.