I'm pursuing Ruby on Rails development but using windows to perform rake and rails tasks is PAINFULLY slow, but I heard it's quite the opposite on Linux.
I'm using a Netbook (Acer Aspire One 722) for development and using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu is out of the question. Doing the whole dual boot thing is also not an option because I run into severe processor load balancing and heating issues that I really do not have the luxury of time to troubleshoot right now.
What I would like to know is: is there anything I can install or any settings I can change that will give me linux-like speed when performing these rake and rails tasks on windows 7?
I've heard that Cygwin and Mingw are "linux emulators", is there any way I could leverage them?