For a while now I have been developing on rails on windows, not the happiest choice for all “blog driven development”

My secret to happy trails, Mingw distribution of Git for windows.

Short story, it took over the prompt, and now I dont have to think in windows shell no more.

gems, plugins, etc all work fine from the $

Cygwin , way too big and messy, this does it fine, has what I need to function as a citizen of the rails interwebs