Windows

#PhpStorm

Windows does not support the PhpStorm protocol, and therefore you will not be able to open PhpStorm given the link from Ray. As a work-around, @aik099 has a package to edits your registry to correlate the PhpStorm link protocol to your PhpStorm instance.

Just go to PhpStorm Protocol Package and follow the directions. There is a chance you may need to reference this issue if you are having problems getting it to work out of the box. However, be sure to update your run_editor.js to your current version of PhpStorm and everything should work.

#WSL2

When using WSL2 on Windows we need to consider first how this technology works: essentially, the Linux running on WSL2, is an optimized VM running on Hyper-V, but it is a "full-blown" Linux OS independent from your host that has some specific kernel changes to make things a bit smoother. Knowing this, we need to set up the Ray package accordingly to connect to the app.

Our Windows host and our WSL2 Linux each have its own network configuration. What we need to achieve is that WSL2 (which is running our code) is able to send the Ray debug events to the Windows host. First off we need to know that WSL2 changes its IP address segment on each launch (each Windows reboot) because that's how it works in Hyper-V, but it also configures automatically the routing necessary to reach our physical network segment (Windows IP address segment) from within WSL2 for us.

There are 3 ways to reach the Ray app from within WSL2 that is running our code. The first two are the recommended ways as you are required to configure them only once:

1. Set a static IP address manually for our Windows host.
2. Set a DHCP reservation for our Windows host on our DHCP server.
3. Reconfigure the Ray package each time we boot our Windows host and WSL2 to set $windows_10_ip_addr as the WSL2 gateway IP.

In all of them what you need to do is set the following configuration in Ray:

'host' => $windows_10_ip_addr,      // this could be the Windows IP address (1. and 2.) or the WSL2 gateway IP address (3. which you would have to change on each reboot)

// these entries are to enhance Ray by allowing to open the files directly in your editor
'remote_path' => $path_to_code_inside_wsl2,     // usually something like /home/spatie/code/my-project
'local_path' => $path_to_code_to_wsl2_in_windows,       // usually something like \\\\wsl$\\Ubuntu\\home\\spatie\\code\\my-project      <- don't forget to escape the \ if using double-quotes like in the example

Also note that you could run into issues with the Windows firewall or your antivirus software that could block the network communication between your WSL2 VM and your Windows host.