# Is there an "official" rails installation process for Mac (O **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 30, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824 "2007-01-30T01:14:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/1 "2007-01-30T01:14:19Z")
Hi, Just got a Mac and there seems to be a number of methods of installing Rails. Is there an “official” rails installation process for Mac (OSX) ??? I can’t seem to find such advice/recommendation. Tks ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/2 "2007-01-30T01:31:21Z")
I would check out Locomotive. On Jan 29, 7:13 pm, “Greg H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/3 "2007-01-30T01:35:22Z")
The easy way is Locomotive. [http://locomotive.raaum.org/](http://locomotive.raaum.org/) If you want to install everything separately, you can follow these instructions: [http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html](http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html) which basically will send you to [http://hivelogic.com/narrative/](http://hivelogic.com/narrative/) articles/ruby\_rails\_lighttpd\_mysql\_tiger As long as you update your OS X to be current, you should be fine. On Jan 29, 4:13 pm, “Greg H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/4 "2007-01-30T01:58:24Z")
tks - sounds like Locomotive would suite me well - Greg ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/5 "2007-01-30T02:11:24Z")
mind if I also ask what the standard (popular) development front end setup is? i.e. webbrick, apache, lighty?, mongrel? Is there a combination that works particularly well on Mac that I should go for? ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/6 "2007-01-30T01:36:22Z")
> Just got a Mac and there seems to be a number of methods of installing > Rails. Is there an “official” rails installation process for Mac (OSX) > ??? I can’t seem to find such advice/recommendation. If you like compiling from source you can check out my post on the subject (basically an up to date version of the hivelogic article, but adds some additional things like rmagick, etc.) [http://blog.pjkh.com/2007/1/15/building-rails-and-all-its-friends-on-osx](http://blog.pjkh.com/2007/1/15/building-rails-and-all-its-friends-on-osx) -philip ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-an-official-rails-installation-process-for-mac-o/83824/7 "2007-01-30T03:16:31Z")
+1 for Hivelogic’s tutorial (see Philip’s post) On Jan 29, 5:10 pm, “Greg H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)