What do you recommend for a shell when developing with Rails?

I am mainly using the Windows Command Prompt. It is ok. One issue I have is that it shows only a limited amount of previous text so if I need to quickly scan back through dev logs when i am running script/server, it is a problem.

I have cygwin but have not tried using it for day to day rails development.

I have also played around with powershell but am not sure if it offers any benefits for rails work.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

When I was developing on Windows (on OS X now) I used the ol’ Command Prompt. An invaluable technique on *nix-based systems like OS X is tail’ing your log file, instead of looking at your script/server output. On Windows, there are a few ways to do this, including tail.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (it definitely works on XP as well, not sure about Vista). I must admit though, when I was on Windows, I just popped it open in Notepad :)