Microsoft provide Ubuntu, open SUSE leap42, and SUSE Linux Enterprise server on windows store.
The installation is very easy now.
The Linux subsystem would be really great new feature on Windows, since the web development requires many open source web app frame works, for example Ruby on Rails, django, play framework and more new web technology tend to be based on Linux/Unix environment. that is one of the reason that many professional developers use Mac for their work machine.
The below is my set up on Ruby on Rails with Windows subsystem Ubuntu.
Assume ubuntu is already ready and running.
You need to install git, python, libssl .....
install necessary using apt-get like
$sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev
Install rbenv
$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
$ cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src
add ~/.rbenv/bin to bash Path
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
Run init
$~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init
to update rbenv
$ cd ~/.rbenv
$ git pull
Install ruby-build
$git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
$echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
$rbenv install 2.5.0
$rbenv global 2.5.0
after checking if ruby has been installed successfully by ruby -v.
install bundler
$gem install bundler
install node.js
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions
$curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
$sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
install rails
$gem install rails
$rails -v
Let's create myWebService
$ rails new myWebService
it takes a little bit of minutes...
after everything was done, type below to start the service.
$ rails server
when it says
=> Booting Puma
=> Rails 5.1.5 application starting in development
=> Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
Puma starting in single mode...
* Version 3.11.2 (ruby 2.5.0-p0), codename: Love Song
* Min threads: 5, max threads: 5
* Environment: development
* Listening on tcp://0.0.0.0:3000
go to the http://localhost:3000. ' You are on Rails' will be shown in the page and Rails works perfect.
