[chef] Chef workstation on Windows

[Benjamin Bytheway < >]

I know it isn't the optimal setup, but in our organization we're going to have to have Windows as a good solution for a chef workstation (the nodes themselves are going to be mostly linux). 

I've followed the wiki page about setting up a windows workstation with omnibus, etc, and I've got things to a place where I can run them, but it is SO SLOW.

We're talking 10-15 seconds just to run 'knife help.'

Has anyone made any headway on getting things to run faster on Windows?  

I understand that Ruby 2.0 has some huge fixes that make the gem loading faster, but it looks like chef + ruby2 on Windows isn't working yet (win32-api gem isn't working). Is there a roadmap anywhere to get to Ruby 2 support (especially on Windows)?

Thanks in advance,

Ben Bytheway